[N]ext day we proceeded to the Roche Rouge having been detained in exchangeing our old canoes for new ones we found at Isle au Sable in possession of the Indian makers.

Sunday 25^th Aug^t[.] Left our fires at 3 P.M[.] Made the little portage of Lac des Bois which is made merely to avoid a circuitous rout[.] [A]t the most western part of this lake made Portage du Rat into the River Winipi[e] which issues out of Lac des Bois in a number of different channels[.] Lake of the Woods is called thirty leagues the way the canoes come – but like the River of Lac la pluie is is made much longer than it really is[.] The portage du Rat is said to the plan where the american Line by the treaty of 83 finishes having followed the Canoe back from the Grand Portage to here and from this place it is to take a due west course till it intersects the Mississipi – a thing impossible in the nature of things, for the source of the said Mississipi is said to be 300 miles due south of the Portage du Rat[.] Camped at M^r Frobisher's Galais about the Dalls[.]

Monday 26^th[.] Passed the Grand Décharges, terre Jaune, petit Rocher de Chaurette, Terre-

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