Saturday 16^th June[.] We are now going in a deep glen of still water called 3 leagues long, very straight and from three to four hundred paces wide, between two ridges of Rocky Mountains[.]

Monday 18^th[.] We passed a cave called by the men Porte de l'enfer; it is a cave in the face of the Rocky Mountain on the north side of the River, thirty to forty paces from the water, the entrance to it appears to be from six to eight feet high and arched; they say this cave recieves light from the top and is very spacious within; about a mile farther on we found the paresseu Portage, a pretty long one: the rapid that occassions it has a perpendicular fall of about ten feet; this is the fifth portage we made since entering ithe little River[.] [A]t some of the portages a tree would bridge the river across. Eight or nine leagues above the paresseu is l'anse au Perches where the setting poles

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