?i) Thirty Tears 



jampment, and soon after arrived at the Mossy Port- 

 age, where the cargoes were carried through a deep 

 bog for a quarter of a mile. The river swells out, 

 above this portage, to the breadth of several miles, 

 and as the islands are numerous, there are a great va- 

 riety of channels. Night overtook us before we arrived 

 at the Second Portage, so named from its being the 

 second in the passage down the river. Our whole dis- 

 tance this day, was one mile and a quarter. 



On the 22d, our route led us amongst many wooded 

 islands, which lying in long vistas, produced scenes of 

 much beauty. In the course of the day we crossed 

 the Upper Portage, surmounted the Devil's Landing 

 Place, and urged the boat with poles through Ground- 

 water Creek. At the upper end of this creek, our 

 bowman having given the boat too broad a sheer, to 

 avoid the rock, it was caught on the broadside by the 

 current, and, in defiance of our utmost exertions, hur- 

 ried down the rapid. Fortunately, however, it 

 grounded against a rock high enough to prevent the 

 current from overselling it, and the crews of the other 

 boats having come to our assistance, we succeeded, 

 after several trials, in throwing a rope to them, with 

 which they dragged our almost, sinking vessel stern 

 foremost up the Stream, and rescued us from our per- 

 ilous Bit nation. 



We began the a cenl of Trout River early in the 



