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29th . — Continued down the Marten River, passing five small chutes 

 by portages, the aggregate fall in seventeen miles being one hundred 

 and ten i i 



Bere the Marten enters tip I er. Passing down the 



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Rupert, which here has an average breadth of one-half milt'. the 

 Nitchicoon branch was passed, two and a half miles below. 

 By this river the canoes bound for the Budson Bay post :it Nitchi- 

 !:. .mi the Basl Main River, leave the Rupert, and reach that river 

 through a system of lakes similar to thai passed on the Marten. 



Continuing down the Rupert, with a Bwifl current, for six miles, ;i 

 fall and rapid oftwentj foel is passed bj me-half mile 



thence tin' river runs with a swifl currenl three miles, to the enl 



Nemiskow. Passing down the lake eighl miles, we camped 

 on :i small island, where the Budson Bay Company have stored a sup- 

 ply of provisions for the Indiana wintering in the vicinity. The 

 country passed through to-day was much lower than yesterday, being 

 nearly flal ; the timber much the Bame, with more second-growth birch 

 and poplar of small size, Lake Nemiskow is silted up by the detritus 

 broughl down by the river for a distance of two miles beyond where 

 we camped, and is characterized by low islands and sand-banks, clad 

 with willow-bush and reeds, through which a channel, half a mile 

 wide, runs. 



lown the lake to an encampmenl of Indian- from 

 Ruperl Bouso, who were engaged netting and Bmoking small sturgeon 

 for winter use. Left again al 2.30 p.m., and followed the north-east 

 Lav -ix and a half miles to the smaller discharge: 



Lake Nemiskow i- made up of three deep bays, forming a V ; each 

 being ahoul fifteen miles long, with an average breadth of three miles. 

 The Rupert River Mow- in by the south-easl bay, and ou( again aboul 

 half-waj up the north east, having two outlets, the larger being several 

 miles farther north than the email or. A large river flows into the 

 south-wesl bay, and forms the canoe route to Washwanaby, a Budson 

 Bay posl on the Nbtaway River. Several other large streams flow 

 into the lake. 

 The surrounding country is comparatively flat, being highest to the 

 ; h-west, u here the hills probably have an elevation above the water 

 of 200 feet. To the north and east is much lower and swampj 



water- of the lake are shallow. 



Pere Aibanel Bays, in the Relations dee Jesuits, thai ten day- are 

 required to make a circuit of the lake, and thai it is Burrounded by 

 high mountain-, forming a Bemicircle from south to north. 



g by the -mailer discharge, we descended it two mi • 

 portage 600 yarda long, past a rapid and fall of forty feet Camped at 



