^00 EXPEDITION TO THE 



On the 2yth we reached at an early hour a projecting 

 point, called the Pointe de Memens, a corruption of the 

 Indian word Marmoaze, which signifies an assemblage of 

 rocks. We there met with a trap rock in place, but the 

 beach is strewed with water-worn fragments of conglome- 

 rates or sandstone ; these were the first conglomerates which 

 we observed on the lake shore. After leaving this point we 

 proceeded on a long stretch, thirty-one miles long, to what 

 is termed the Grand Cape, which we reached late at 

 night. Our course led us near to a group of small islands, 

 called Maple Islands, and there we first observed the sugar 

 tree in abundance. Being during part of this day at a con- 

 siderable distance from the north shore, we with great sa- 

 tisfaction discovered the south coast of the lake to be in 

 sight ; this afforded us a sure indication of the approaching 

 close of our navigation on this lake. The part of the south 

 shore which first disclosed itself to our view is termed 

 White-fish point. The land appeared to be very low, and 

 nearly overflowed by the waters of the lake. The next 

 point of land which is disclosed on the south shore is Iro- 

 quois point, differing but little from the former in its ge- 

 neral character. 



We had reached the Grand Point at too late an hour to 

 judge of its real situation •, it was only, therefore, on the 

 next morning, that we became aware that we had arrived 

 at the eastern extremity of the lake, and that on doubling 

 that cape we would enter a bay from which the river St. 

 Mary issues. We left the Grand Point on the morning of 

 the 30th of September, the weatlier was fair and pleasant ; 

 after travelling a short distance, the rocks were observed 

 to recede gradually from the lake, the shores of which 

 were lined with sandy beaches; but the hills at a distance 

 decreased rapidly in height, and from the change in their 



