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called Eepah-haska, or Long point, by the Nacotahs. There 

 is another, a little higher up, of a similar kind : the river 

 here is about one hundred and ten yards broad, varying in 

 width, and gliding sometimes on one bank, sometimes on the 

 other, in a serpentine course, through a valley of rich, black, 

 sandy loam, about one and a half mile wide between the 

 bluffs. The zizania is frequently abundant about hero. The 

 guide pointed out to me, on the right bank, the place where, 

 in 1811, he had buried his employer, a trader of the name 

 of Cameron, who, like many others of his vocation, go on 

 struggling for wealth, and die unnoticed in the woods. About 

 forty miles from the Warhajoo, I for the first time came 

 upon a mass of granite in place, the river narrowing to about 

 fifty yards. The voyageurs call this Petit Rocher. Further on 

 there are large granite rocks in the river. Mr. Moore s 

 trading-house is in this vicinity, on the right bank. The 

 granite henceforward is of constant occurrence, nor was any 

 other kind of rock seen in place during my further progress 

 to the northwest. From hence to a stream coming in from 

 the left bank, called by the Nacotahs Weetah-chantah- 

 eahantah, or Island of dead wood that falls in the lake, and by 

 the traders Beaver river, is a succession of rapids, masses of 

 granite, and shallow water, often not more than one foot deep 

 on the sand. Beyond this point, on the right bank, are huge 

 out-liers of granite for many miles on the prairie bottoms, 

 The Chanshyapay, or Red-wood river, comes in a little further 

 on, taking its name from a tree painted red by the savages. 

 The St. Peter s is much obstructed by rocks and rapids before 

 reaching this stream, but is wide and shallow after passing it. 

 The voyageurs call it forty leagues, or one hundred and twenty 

 miles, from the Warhajoo to Chanshyapay. Twelve miles 

 further to the west, an out-lier of granite, of great dimensions, 

 stands alone on the right bank ; and about eight miles further, 

 there is a fine stretch of granite rocks, on the right bank, about 

 fifty feet high and one hundred and fifty yards long. The 

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