From Fort William on the borders of Lake Superior to Lake of the woods I compute it to be about two hundred leagues and from Vermelion lake South to Sandy lake North about a hundred and fifty[.]

The Country is in General Mountainous, especially towards the North, where it is likewise more Swampy.

The Lakes and Rivers are innumerable, to give their names and situation is what none in the Country are able to do, except the natives. [H]owever it is allowed by them and all travellers that at least a fifth if not a fourth of the country is under water[.]The Fish caught in these lakes and Rivers, is sturgeon, Pike, Pickerel[,] white fish, trout and Sucker.

The soil is variable in some places only sand, but in general it is fine sand mixd with a small portion of Clay or a kind of white Earth over which there is about an Inch of Black Mould, but along the banks of some Rivers and in some low places it is from six to twelve Inches, this Mould is formed from leaves and Rotten wood in the Summer when dry it burns like wood, and as by the carelessness of the natives, the fire runs in some part of the country every year it happens that the low Grounds by being moist Escape, while the hills Burn, this causes the soil of

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