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miles wide, exclusive o( a spacious prolongation or bay, in the 



lion to Leech Lake* It is the second large lake below the 



primary forks of tl sippi, and is decidedly the largest i \- 



lettmingthe character of a lake, in its entire length, cot< r- 



H)g I than Lake Pepin. 



The Mississippi is bat little need by trad* . North West, 



am) not tt all beyond Lac Traverse. It h found to take its rise 

 aonth of west firoru Cass Like, [n consequence, its source has 



seldom : !, even by the traders, whose highest point of 



Temporary location is Pamitehi Gumaug, or Lac Traverse, esti- 

 mated to be forty miles W. \.\\. off Cass Lake. And this 



been found to be the extreme N.W. point attained by 



ations barring been made to the Department, on the 

 Subject of foreign interference in the trade on this frontier, I have 

 addressed a number of queries on the subject to a clerk* engaged 

 in the American trade, who has been many years a resident of 

 Red Lake, and is well acquainted with the geography and 



- of the adjacent country. I inquired of him, whether 

 me American traders on that border were strenuously opposed in 

 their fide by the inhabitants of the Ked River colony, or by the 

 partners and clerks of the Hudson's liny Company. He replied, 

 that thr inhabitants of Pembina made temporary royages of trade 

 • > \ "1, use. or Thief Kiver, south of the parallel of 49°, but that 

 they had not built, or made a permanent stand there. He said, 

 that the open nature of the country about the Red River settle- 

 ments aave ureat facilities for making short excursions into the 

 Indian country, on horseback and in carts. Hut lie did not know 

 any place where permanent outfits had been sent, except to 

 Rivii re Souris, or Mouse River, west of Red River. He believes 

 that this traffic was carried on exclusively by the inhabitants of 

 the colony, and not by the Hudson's Bey Company. 



an, whether the Indians of the Lake of the Woods 

 !>' 1 Lake, and whether our traders were an- 



. their trade from that quarter, by the servants of the H. 

 B. Company. He replied, that the Lac du Bois Indians came 



is Dufault. 

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