Ixxx A GENERAL HISTORY

South, and entering.a portion of its waters called the Grafs River, whofe
meandering courfe is about fix miles, but in a direé line not more than
half that length, where it receives its waters from the great river, which then
runs Wefterly eleven miles before it forms the Knee Lake, whofe dire@tion
is to the North of Weft. It is full of iflands for eighteen miles, and its
greateft apparent breadth is not more than five miles. The portage of
the fame name is feveral hundred yards long, and over large ftones. Its
latitude is 55. 50. and longitude 106. go. Two miles further North is
the commencement of the Croche Rapid, which is a fucceffion of caf-
cades for about three miles, making a bend due South to the Lake
du Primeau, whofe courfe is various, and through iflands, to the dil-
tance of about fifteen miles. The banks of this lake are low, ftony,
and marfhy, whofe grafs and rufhes, afford fhelter and food to great
numbers of wild fowl. At its Weftern extremity is Portage la Puife,
from whence the river takes a meandering courfe, widening and con-
traéling at intervals, and is much interrupted by rapids. After a
Wefterly courfe of twenty miles, it reaches Portage Pellet. From
hence, in the courfe of feven miles, are three rapids, to which fucceeds
the Shagoina Lake, which may be eighteen miles in circumference.
Then Shagoina {trait and rapid lead into the Lake of Ile a la Croifé, in
which the courfe is South twenty miles, and South-South-Weft fourteen
miles, to the Point au Sable; oppofite to which is the difcharge of the
Beaver-River, bearing South fix miles: the lake in the diftance run, does
not exceed twelve miles in its greateft breadth. It now turns Weft-
South-Weft, the ifle a la Croifé being on the South, and the main land
on the North; and it clears the one and the other in the diftance
of three miles, the water prefenting an open horizon to right and
left: that on the left formed by a deep narrow bay, about ten leagues

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