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Harmon's journal. 



our people killed a deer, with their setting poles, 

 as he was crossing the river. 



Tuesday, 6. The three Kettles. In the for- 

 mer part of the day, we passed a beautiful water- 

 fall, where the Riviere au Rideau, or Curtain 

 River, falls into this, which is the Ottawa River. 

 The former is ten or twelve rods wide, and the 

 water falls perpendicularly, about forty feet, pre- 

 senting at a little distance-, an appearance at once 

 pleasing and grand. We are now about one hun- 

 dred and Mty miles from Montreal ; the land on 

 each side of the river is very level, and the soil 

 appears to be good. William M c Gilvray, Esq. 

 passed us this evening, in a light canoe, bound like 

 ourselves, to the Grand Portage. 



Thursday, 8. Au Chat. We now, for the first 

 time, see Indian huts or tents. 



Friday, 9. We arrived this morning, at this 

 place, where the North West Company have a 

 small establishment ; and I have passed the after- 

 noon, in shooting pigeons. 



Saturday, 10. Grand Calumet. This Port- 

 age is, nearly two miles long ; and 6ver it, the peo- 

 ple carry both the canoes and their loading. 

 Here stands a house, built by those who came 

 here to traffick with the Indians ; but which has 

 been abandoned for several years, as the Indians, 

 who formerly hunted in this vicinity, are now gone 



