Brigade[.] These unfortunate men had made portage and loaded their canoe below it, but had neglected to put a man or two on shore with a bit of Line to stem the strong eddy which carries back to the fall, from a foolish confididence in their own power, and in consequence were drawn by the eddy under the pitch of the fall where the canoe instantly filled and sunk. Though some of the bodies were found far below this the seven crosses are erected here as a warning to others along with seven others in memory of former casualties. Two leagues below the Grand Recollet is Derraud's Rapid named after a voyageur of that name who broke his Canoe in it; this River being the communication between Lake Huron and the ottawa River appears to have been much frequented by the savages of old, as many be judged from the various figures of animals &c. made by them on the face of the steep Rocks in many places along the banks. Some leagues Below Deneaud's Rapid is the figure of a man standing over an animal that lays under him, with a sun on one side and a moon on the other side of him each surrounded by a large circle[.] [A] little farther on, is at least sixteen figures of different animals stand-

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