The account the guide gives me here is "The entrance of the French River into the Lake Huron is nearly at an eaqual distance from Detroit on the S.S.E., S^t Mary's Falls on the W.N.W. and Malkinac on the W.S.W. which is farthur by ten leagues than either of the other two places[.] The Canoes to & from Malkinac keep the same course with those bound for S^t Mary's, till they reach Pointe Tepalon to Malkinac whence they cross amongst Islands to the Pointe du Detour fifteen leagues from Mackinac the whole distance from Tepalon to Mackinac is 20 twenty five leagues[.]" This is certainly a mistake for Detroit is farthur from the entrance of the French River than either of the other places though I cannot specify the distance. The following are the names of the portages from Montreal line in inthe order in which they occur in ascending the Ottawa River &c. to Lake Huron. Viz = 1^st Chute a Blondeau, N^o 2 3 4 Long Soult, N^o 5 6 7 Les Chaudieres, N^o8 Les Chats[,] N^o 9 Potage du Fort, N^o 10 La Montagne, N^o 11

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