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Elk, more plentiful than I had ever seen before, the Country to the falls almost without any Timber; and above that, very uneven & rugged, thick timbered with Pines very large, Beach, Maple, Birch and other sorts of Timber. situate between two small Lakes is a small Town of the Chipeway Nation from whence the River below takes its name, in July I left this Town crossed a number of Lakes, and carrying places between them, came to one branch of the heads of the St. Croix River, which I descended to a forck, and then ascended another branch to its utmost head, found several Copper mines of Virgin Copper on these two branches, here I found a small brook which my Guid thought might join streams to form a River Navigable for our Canoes, which we did and descended a most rapid River from its source to its entrance into Lake Superior, this river, I named Goddards River; the Country from the Ottoway Lake to the Lake Superior is in general very uneven and thick Timbered, the soil in some places very good, and in others but indifferent, in the heads of the St. Croix and Chipeway Rovers, are exceeding fine Sturgeon; all the Wilderness between the Mississippi and Lake Superior is by the Indians called the Musketoe Country, and I thought rightly named, for I never saw or felt so many of those Insects before, it being in their proper season. The latter end of July I arrived at the Grand [[catchword]] Portage [[/catchword]]
