it has changed its course back to what it it was at the entrance of the Chenaux 5 Leagues below the Grand Calumet. Opposite to this marais on the south shore there is kpindk sand bank 30 to 40 feet high near a mile in length which bounds prettily round this point of the Grand narais in the form of a Crescent having the same gradual penchant from one end to the other, from its summit all the way to the waters edge. It is shaded on top by fine groves of Norway Pine whose stalks grow up fifty feet frequently without branches[.] [A]t intervals through the pines we could see like a large clearing apparently made by fire and which the Canadians would call a Grand Brulé[.] This brulé came to the water's edge about two miles below the bank above mentioned.

Sunday 9^th June[.] Left our campment at the head of the Grand marais where a branch of the Ottawa issues to the southward and joins the River some where near the entrance of Lac des Chats – making thus an Island

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