think that a bird could scarcely live on these Rocks.

Fourteen leagues from Lake Nipising is L'Enfant perdu a fine encampment where according to the Story an Indian child that was bathing in sight of his parents was suddenly pulled under water and not coming up soon his friends repeatedly dived for him, but to no purpose some time after they heard moaning under the ground they were encamped upon, they then began to dig with sticks and paddles and only gave up their attemps as vain when they heard the cries of the child proceeding under the high rocky ground and wood back of their encampment[.] [I]t is said the Boy's cries where heard for six days during which his friends used all their endeavours to relieve him until discouraged by the above mentioned circumstance. A league below L'Enfant perdue under the high rocky ground and wood back of their encampment in a portage called le Grand Recolet where one of the North West Companys canoes manned by brothers of the name of Majeau upset and drowned seven men and lost half the Cargo about fifteen days ago[.] The few survivors and the goods that floated were picked below the Rapid by the other canoes of the

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