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embark on the lake of Hauteur de Terre*, which is in the fhape of an
*horfe-fhoe. It is entered near the curve, and left at the extremity of
the Weftern limb, through a very fhallow channel, where the canoe
paffes half loaded for thirty paces with the current, which leads through
the fucceeding lakes and rivers, and difembogues itfelf, by the river
Nelfon, into Hudfon’s-Bay. The firft of thefe is Lac de pierres a fufil,
running Welt-South-Welt feven miles long, and two wide, and, making
an angle at North-Welt one mile more, becomes a river for half a mile,
tumbling over a rock, and forming a fall and portage, called the Efcalier,
of fifty-five paces; but from hence it is neither lake or river, but pof-
feffes the chara€ter of both, and ends between large rocks, which caufe
a current or rapid, falling into a lake-pond for about two miles and an
half, Weft-North-Welt, to the portage of the Chevaldu Bois. Here the
canoe and contents are carried three hundred and eighty paces, between
rocks; and within a quarter of a mile is the Portage des Gros Pins,
which is fix hundred and forty paces overan high ridge. ‘The oppofite
fide of it is wafhed by a {mall lake three miles round; and the courfe is
through the Eaft end or fide of it, three quarters of a mile North-Eaft,
where there is a rapid. An irregular, meandering channel, between
rocky banks, then fucceeds, for feven miles and an half, to the Maraboeuf
Lake, which extends North four miles, and is three quarters of a mile
wide, terminating by a rapid and décharge, of one hundred and eighty
paces, the rock of Saginaga being in fight, which caules a fall of about

feven feet, and a portage of fifty-five paces.

- * The route which we have been travelling hitherto, leads along the high rocky land or bank of
Lake Superior on theleft. The face of the country offersa wild {cene of huge hills and rocks, feparated
by ftony vallies, lakes, and ponds. Wherever there is'th? leaft foil, it is well covered with trees.

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