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passing the Portage is the Missinipi or Churchill River. English River dis- 
charging itself into the Hudsons Bay at Churchill. 
Portages de Bareil, de l'Isle, and Rapid River. 
Lac la Ronge. 
Lac de la Montagne. 
Otter Lake, Otter Portage. 
Portage du Diable. 
Portage des [illegible], du Galet, des Morts, de Hallier. 
Lake de l'Ile de l’Ours.! 
Rapid qui ne parle point. 
Portage du Canot tourner. 
Portages du Bouleau, des Epingles. 
Lac de Souris. 
Lac du Serpent. 
Lac Croche.? 
Grass River. 
Knee Lake, Croche Rapid. 
Lac du Primeau. 
Lac de Shagoinu. 
Isle à la Crosse Lake, so called from the Indian Game of La Crosse. 
Rivière la Creuse. 
Isle à la Crosse Fort which is in Lat. 55.25, Lon. 107.48. 
Isle à la Crosse. 
Rivière Creuse. 
Lake Clear. 
Lac du Bœuf. 
Rivière la Loche. 
Portage la Loche or Methy. Portage la Loche is 1000 feet high; from its 
Summit a magnificent View. 
(This Portage divides the Waters which discharge themselves into Hudson’s 
Bay from those which flow into the Northern or Frozen Ocean and is in Lat. 
56.24, Lon. 109.15. The Portage is 11 Miles. At about % Distance is a small 
- Lake which a little relieves the Voyageurs.) 
Red Willow River. 
Elk or Athapascan River taking its Rise in the Rocky Mountains. 
Fort Chipywyan, Lat. 58.38, Lon. 110.26. 
Canoes despatched ist August from Rainy Lake arrive end of September. 
From Cumberland House [on Sturgeon Lake] the course is changed, the 
Saskatchewan taking a S. Direction to near Carlton House where it divides 
itself into two Branches, the one taking a S. W. Direction through the Stone 
Indian Country towards the Height of Land which forms the Boundary of 
the Hudson Bay Territory on this Side and divides that Territory from the 
Lands of the Assiniboin and Black Foot Indians. From ‘thence the Course is 
N. W. to Chesterfield House where the Red Deer River, connecting it with 
the Buffalo Lake joins it. From this Post it is called the Bow or Arkaw River 
which takes its Rise in the Rocky Mountains. The Main Branch [of the Sas- 


1 Black Bear Island Lake. 
2 Sandy Lake. 
3 This river runs into the Clear Water River from the south. 
