liv A GENERAL HISTORY

mile: it runs Weit-North-Weft to the Portage des Pins, over which the
canoe and lading is again carried four hundred paces. From hence
the channel is alfo intercepted by very dangerous rapids for two miles
Wefterly, to the point of Portage du Bois, which is two hundred and
eighty paces. Then fucceeds the portage of Lake Croche one mile
more, where the carrying-place is eighty paces, and. is followed by an
embarkation on that lake, which takes its name from its figure. It ex-
tends eighteen miles, in a meandering form, and in a wefterly dire€tion;
it is in general very narrow, and at about two-thirds of its length be-

comes very contracted, with a {trong current.

Within three miles of the laft Portage is a remarkable rock, with
a {mooth face, but fplit and cracked in different parts, which hang
over the water. Into one of its horizontal chafms a great number of
arrows have been fhot, which is faid to have been done by a war party
of the Nadowafis or Sieux, who had done much mifchief in this
country, and left thefe weapons as a warning to the Chebois or natives,
that, notwithitanding its lakes, rivers, and rocks, it was not inacceffible

to their enemies.

Lake Croche is terminated by the Portage de Rideau, four hundred
paces long, and derives its name from the appearance of the water, falling
over arock of upwards of thirty feet. Several rapids fucceed, with intervals
of ftill water, for about three miles to the Flacon portage, which is very
difficult, is four hundred paces long, and leads to the Lake of La Croix,
fo named from its fhape. It runs about North-Weft eighteen miles to the
Beaver Dam, and then finks into a deep bay nearly Eaft. The courfe to

the