from the long Sault we have twenty leagues of still water to navigate[.] The Ottawa in this distance runs a N.E. to E.N.E. Course[.] After ascending fourteen leagues of smooth water we came to La parents settlement at the barriere where our guide attempted in vain to hire a man inlieu of one who had turned back from the long soult on account of a rupture with which he was afflicted. The land on the south side begins to rise to some heighth on the north the Ridge of Mountains which came to view at the head of the Long Soult is still to be seen. The water of this river as of a browner cast than that of the S^t Lawrence and much warmer at this time of the year.

Monday June 3^rd[.] Left our campment for the first time before sun-rise. After paddling about a league & a half, the land on the South shore began to be rocky and steep from the edge of the water – passed opposite the mouth of the Rideau River, the water of which falls perpendicular from the top of a Rock fourteen to sixteen feet high into the Ottawa[.] The Rideau may be about twenty five yards wide

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