of the Lake by a variety of channels to the North North West of the portage and are too rapidious to be navigable above if they are to be judged of by the nearest of them to the portage which is steeper than a mill race and not wider in places[.] After proceeding about two miles down the cove we carried from Lac Nipising the currant of the main body of the F^rançais River comming from the N.N.E. took us broad side and carried us down merrily being the first canoe current able to make an impression on the canoe that we have drifted with[.] At the Chaudiere des Français I saw the first Juniper berry growing but now they are to be met with all along the French River.

June 26^th[.] Came down the following Rapids, Les Pins, Rapide Croche, La Fausille, Le Parisien, Petit parisien[.] The day is a beautiful clear day and sun shine. Have seen nothing but rocks since we entered the French River producing but moss and some ever-greens stinted in growth, one would

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