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b birch and aspen, with pine* in the dii ' nty 



minutes in passing it. The outli t is full doubled in width, and 

 free from the embarrassments encountered above. Tain;: 

 j- a frequent tree on the shores, and the pond lilly, Hag and In- 

 dian reed, appear in the stream. This outlet is followed about 



• t miles, wh: iv it expands into a -mall lake, called Birch 



Lake, which we were only thirteen minutes in passing. Its 

 outlet exhibit! a pebbly bottom, inti i ! with boulders, 



which produce so much inequality in the depth, that I 

 were obliged often to wade. Not more than seven or eight 

 mi;. e thus occupied, in the course of which Wi 



through a broken fish-dam, when we entered another i 

 called Luc Ph. 



Lac Pie is about three and a half, or four miles long. V 

 tat ion here appears to show a more southerly character. Part 

 ol its shores are prairie, interspersed with small pines. I, 

 particularly deserving f notice, as being the point, from which 

 a scries of porta., le to Ottertnil Lake. A map of these 



furnished by the traders, who often use tfa exhibits the 



followin First, ■ portage of four ; m\ 



Lai portage of o . , small lake, which has 



• utl< t, through another small lake into Lake Lagard, bari 

 a transvi lition. Thence half a pause, into a small las 



a pans • and a half into another small lake, and thence four 

 j an-' - into Migiskun Aiaub, or Fish-line Lake. Thence one 

 pause into Pine Lake, and five into a small river which 1* 

 into Scalp Lake. Th i latter lias an outlet which e into 



three lid.es. at nearly equal distant 

 ved by Lac T rrehaut, on the Height of Land. Thee 



whic - called ; ' fi- 



nally dischar -t of the i . 



: iwn this route, d •■ 



r, hid circum 



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