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for six dollars a gallon ; and other things, in the 

 same proportion. * r 



Thursday, 29. Duncan M c Gilvray, Esq. one 

 of the agents for the North West Company, arriv- 

 ed in the morning, at St. Josephs, from Mackana ; 

 and soon after, we embarked on board of our 

 canoes, to come to this small Island. x4s the 

 weather is calm, my fellow-traveller and I in- 

 tend sleeping in our canoe ; but the labourers 

 will pass the night on shore. 



Friday, 30. Soult St. Maries. Here the 

 North West Company have another establish- 

 ment, on the north side of the Rapid ; and on 

 the opposite shore, there are a few Americans, 

 Scotch and Canadians, who carry on a small traf- 

 fic with the Natives, and also till the ground a lit- 

 tle. The soil about Lake Huron, which we have 

 just passed, appears to be good, and the face of the 

 country is low and level. — Here the North West 

 Company have built locks, in order to take up 

 loaded canoes, that they may not be under the 

 necessity of carrying them by land, to the head of 

 the Rapid ; for the current is too strong to be 

 stemmed by any craft. The Company are like- 

 wise building a saw mill, at the foot of the Rapid, 

 to furnish boards, &c. for the Grand Portage, &c. 

 Here is the outlet of Lake Superiour, by which its 

 waters pass into Lake Huron. On each of these 



