OF THE FUR TRADE, &c. Ixxv

jake might with greater propriety, be denominated a canal, as it
is not more than a mile in breadth. Its courfe is rather to the
Ealt of North for twelve miles to Portage de L’lfle. From thence
there is fill water to Portage d’Epinettes, except an adjoining rapid.
_The diftance is not more than four miles Wefterly. After crofling
this Portage, it is not more than two miles to Lake Miron, which
is in latitude 55.7. North. Its length is about twelve miles, and its
breadth irregular, from two to ten miles. It is only feparated from
Lake du Chitique, or Pelican Lake, by a fhort, narrow, and {mall
ftrait. That lake is not more than feven miles long, and its courfe.
about North-Weft. The Lake des Bois then fucceeds, the paflage to
which is through fmall lakes, feparated by falls and rapids. The
firft is a Décharge: then follow the three galets, in immediate fuc-
ceffion. From hence Lake des Bois runs about twenty-one miles.
Its courfe is South-South-Eaft, and North-North-Weft, and is full of
iflands. The pafflage continues through an intricate, narrow, winding,
and fhallow channel for eight miles. The interruptions in this diftance
are frequent, but depend much on the ftate of the waters. Having
pafled them, it is neceflary to crofs the Portage de Traite, or, as it is
called by the Indians, Athiquifipichigan Ouinigam, or the Portage of
the Stretched Frog-Skin, to the Miffinipi. The waters already defcribed
difcharge themfelves into Lake Winipic, and augment thofe of the
river Nelfon. Thefe which we are now entering are called the Miffinipi,
or great Churchill River.

All the country to the South and Eaft of this, within the line of the
progrels that has been defcribed, is interfperfed by lakes, hills, and
rivers, and is full of animals, of the fur-kind, as well as the moofe-deer.

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