Callumet sixty Leagues from Montreal and I think it much about opposite to Kingston or Lake Ontario. There is a quarrry of Marble on the opposite side of the River to where we unloaded our canoes at the foot of the Grand Callumet Rapid & I presume the portage takes its name from the Indians making use of the stone to make their pipes or calumets of it.

8^th June. Started from the D We Embarked on the Smooth water above the Grand Callumet with a fair wind which blew straight up the river[.] After proceeding a few leagues the shore on both sides of the River began to get high and rocky particularly that on the left hand which was frequently one hundred feet perpendicular from the surface of the water, with which it formed a right angle[.] In one place in particular I think it was so narrow that a stone might be cast by a good thrower from one shore to the other. This is called les Rochers du Grand Callumet, and here I saw for the first time, tripe de Roche, (rock weed) – which the men tell me is the last resource men have to subsist upon in the inhospitable regions of the dreary north, and has been know to keep men alive for months, boiled in water, after having the sand well washed off it. Six leagues above the Grand Callumet we came to the grand marais, on the North shore of the River, for

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