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Ixxiv A GENERAL HISTORY

the Safkatchiwine River, has formed the land that lies between it and the
lake, for the diftance of upwards of twenty miles in the line of the river,
which is inundated during one half of the fummer, though covered with —
wood. ‘This lake forms an irregular horfe-fhoe, one fide of which runs
to, the North-Weft, and bears the name of Pine-Ifland Lake, and the
other known by the name already mentioned, runs to the Eaft of North,
and 1s the largeft: its length is about twenty-feven miles, and its greateft
breadth about fix miles. The North fide of the latter is the fame kind
of rock as that defcribed in Lake Winipic, on the Weft fhore. In lati-
tude 54. 16. North, the Sturgeon-Weir River difcharges itfelf into this
lake, and its bed appears to be of the fame kind of rock, and is almofta
continual rapid. Its direét courfe is about Weft by North, and with its
windings, is about thirty miles. It takes its waters into the Beaver Lake,
the South-Weft fide of which confifts of the fame rock lying in thin
{tratas: the route then proceeds from ifland to ifland for about twelve
miles, and along the North fhore, for four miles more, the whole being
a North-Weft courfe to the entrance of a river, in latitude 54. 32. North.
The lake, for this diftance, is about four or five miles wide, and abounds
with fifh common tothe country. The part of it upon the right of that
which has been defcribed, appears more confiderable. The iflands are
rocky, and the lake itfelf furrounded by rocks. The communication
from hence to the Bouleau Lake, alternately narrows into rivers and
fpreads into {mall lakes. The interruptions are, the Pente Portage,
which is fucceeded by the Grand Rapid, where there is a Décharge,
the Carp Portage, the Bouleau Portage in latitude 54. 50. North, in-
cluding a diftance, together with the windings, of thirty-four miles,
in a Wefterly dire€tion, The Lake de Bouleau then follows, This

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