McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
in the summer in a schooner or Boats and afterwards conveyed by the Indians in small Canoes up the Country by the way of the Chicoutimy River which brings them to Lake St John[.]
The 4th Augt having procured two small Canoes with a Canadian and an Indian to each I left my large Canoe and Crew at Chicoutimy and set out, myself in our Canoe and Baggage in the other, for Lake St John where I arrived the third day after making ten Portages and seeing nothing remarkable. The Chicoutimy River only seven leagues in length brought us into Kinogomie or long Lake, seven Leagues long – making a short Portage we fell into Kinogomie shish a lake three leagues more in length then into Riviere des Aunois a small serpentine river three leagues long after which we got into Labelle Rivierre a small River which brought us into Lake St John and is four leagues long.
Lake St John is circular and though thirty Leagues in circumference can be seen with one Glance of the eye[.] The north shore of this Lake is low & swampy and the south more elevated and covered with wood[.] The Country from Baie de Haha five leagues below
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