20 Thirty Years 
‘ampment, 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, tc 
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 oversetting 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 situation. . 
We began the ascent of Trout River early in the 
