are thrown away to the reserve of two per canoe which the Bowman and Steers-man keep[.] The ceremony of throwing away the poles our men performed with a loud huzza. The next impedement our navigation met with was the portage of Talon occasioned by a fall nearly forty feet high which is not perpendicular but has two cascades[.] The portage is long and difficult, here we pitched our tent, and passed the night. About three leagues beyond this portage we left the Little River and made two portages called Les Musiques, one of them is horrid, nothing but ups and downs among broken and rugged rocks. After passing the last of the musiques we proceeded about a quarter of a mile in a ditch not much wider than the canoe, which nature seems to have made through the centre of a cedar Swamp for the convenience of the North west Trade, then we embarked on a small lake of two Leagues long which brought us to the Portage la Tortue being the last. Came next to Lac la Tortue three leagues long

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