float down the timber[.] There are several small rockay Islands looking over the brink of the fall the rock which occasions it has several curious crevises in it through which the water pours with a wild appearance.

There are ten Portages following each other of this name in the space of about five miles and some discharges between them[.] At the uppermost or portages des Chiêns we slept. The mosquitoes intolerable.

The Ottawa at this place seems little inferior to the S^t Lawrence at Cornwal in size[.] Above the portage des Chiêns we entered the Lac des Chaudiers a piece of dead water called ten Leagues from W. to E. and not above one in width[.] After ascending the Lake about three leagues we got sight of the Ridge of Mountains to the N. which we had not seen since we reached the Rideau yesterday, owing to our rout lyaying close under an extensive point along the North Shore of the river[.] Eight miles farther we came to pointe aux Irroquois or Pointe a la bataille, so called from a party of that

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