OF THE FUR TRADE, &c. XXXiiL

carrying- -place in“this river, and is about two thoufand and thirty-five
paces. Tt isa high hill or mountain. From the upper part of this Por-

tage the current is fteady, and is only a branch of the Utawas River,

‘which joins the main channel, that keeps a more Southern courle, at ‘the

diftance of twelve computed leagues. Six oe further it forms Lake
Coulonge, which is about four leagues inlength: from thence it proceeds
through the channels of the Allumettes to the Pate where part of the
_lading is taken ‘out, and carried three hundred and forty-two paces.
“Then fucceeds the Portage des Allumettes, which is but twenty-five
- ‘paces, over a rock difficult of accefs, and but a very fhort diftance from
Lake Coulonge.’ From Portage de Chenes to this fpot, is a fine deer-
hunting country, and the land in many parts very fit for cultivation.

From hence the river fpreads wide, and is full of iflands, with fome cur-

rent for feven leagues, to the beginning of Riviere Creu/e, or Deep River, -

which runs in the form of a canal, about a mile and an half. wide, for
about thirty-fix’miles ; bounded upon the North by very high rocks,
swith low land on the South, and fandy ; it is intercepted again by falls
and cataraéts, fo that the Portages of the two Joachins almoft join.
‘The firft is nine hundred and twenty-fix paces, the next feven hundred

and twenty,and both very-bad roads. From hence is a fteady current of

nine miles to the River du Moine, where there has generally been a trad-
ing houfe; the ftream then becomes {trong for four leagues, when a rapid
fucceeds, which requires two trips. A little way onward is the Décharge,
and clofe to it, the Portage of the Roche Capitaine, feven handred and
ninety-feven paces in length. From hence two’trips are made through
-a narrow channel of the Roche ‘Capitaine, ‘made’by an ifland four miles
an length. A ftrong current now fucceeds, for about fix leagues to the

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