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ting down the banka with paddles, and then by walking in the 

 stream and lifting the by its gunnels, thej - I in 



ng it up to another lake, railed Little Long Lake. We 

 were twenty-foer minutes in crossing this latter lake, and (bund 

 it< inlet t<> be connected with lour other Binall lakes of a pondy 

 chai ent with nympha? odorata, through which we 



eely passed, and debarked at the head of the la->t lake 



on a shaking being the commencement of portage Pie, 



This portage is quite short and dry, lies over a hill-prairie, and 



:i the hank- of B transparent, bowl-shaped lake, 

 with elevated shores, where we made our breakfast, at twelve 

 >ck. This lake, which we may refer to as the Lake of the 

 Mountains, notwithstanding the liveliness and purity of its wa- 

 ll PS, has no visible outlet, a characteristic of which it part: 

 in common with a very ixreat number of the small kikes of this 

 quarter, which may be supposed to lie in aluminous strata. 

 .Next, in the order of travelling south of it, is the Mountain Per- 



. appropriately so called. Its extent is nine hundred and 

 ten yard-. The elevation is considerable, but no rock strata 

 appear in situ. The soil is diluvial, with boulders. The growth, 

 yellow pine, with small maples and underbrush. It tennin 

 on the Lake of the Island. There is then a portage of two 

 pauses, or 1,960 yards into another lake, quite pond-like, w I 

 it is first entered, but assuming a clear and bright surface after 

 turning a prominent point. There is then a further porta- 

 one pause, a part of it, through a morass, but terminating on 

 highlands, surrounding the head and shores of a handsome and 

 comparatively extensive sheet of water called Kagi Nogumaug, 

 or The* Long Water, where we < w amped for the night This 

 day's journey was a hard and fatiguing one, to the men. The 



ill.- Plat, who with one of the minor chiefs from Leech I 

 overtook us on the banks of the Lake of the Island, express) d 

 hi8 surprise that, with all our baL r L r ai r <- and heaw canoes, we 

 1 pushed <>n so far. It was, however, a definite point in the 

 nil- v. We were novi on the source of tin Kag gi, oi D 



