Ix A GENERAL HISTORY

to Albany River, and from thence to Hudfon’s Bay. There is alfo a
communication with Lake Superior, through what is called the Nipigan
country, that enters the Lake Winipic about thirty-five leagues Haft of the
Grande Portage. In fhort, the country 1s fo broken by lakes and rivers,
that people may find their way in canoes in any direétion they pleafe.
It is now four miles to Portage de Lifle, which is but fhort, though
feveral canoes have been loft in attempting to run the rapid. From
thence it is twenty-fix miles to Jacob’s Falls, which are about fifteen feet
high; and fix miles and an halfto the woody point; forty yards from which
is another Portage. They both form an high fall, but not perpendicular.
From thence to another galet, or rocky Portage, is about two miles,
which is one continual rapid and cafeade; and about two miles further
is the Chute a l’Efclave, which is upwards of thirty feet. The Portage
is long, through a point covered with wood: it is fix miles and an half
more to the barrier, and ten miles to the Grand Rapid. From thence,
on the North fide, is a fafe road, when the waters are high, through fimall
rivers and lakes, to the Lake du Bonnet, called the Pinnawas, from the
man who difcovered it: to the White River, fo called from its being, for
a confiderable length, a fucceffion of falls and cataraéts, is twelve miles.
Here are feven portages, in fo fhort a fpace, that the whole of them are
difcernible at the fame moment. From this to Lake du Bonnet js fifteen
miles more, and four miles acrofs it to the rapid.- Here the Pinnawas
road joins, and from thence it is two miles to the Galet du Lac du Bonnet;
from this to the Galet du Bonnet one mile and an half; thence to the Por-
tage of the fame name is three miles. This Portage is near half a league
in length, and derives its name from a cuftom the Indians have of crown-

ing ftones, laid in a circle, on the higheft rock in the portage, with

wreaths,