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Portage, where they carry over their Canoes and Baggage nine miles into a number of small Lakes, some of which descend in Lake Superior, and others into the waters of the Bourbon, tho' the South West parts where I first entered it was tolerable level; at the Grand Portage is a small Bay locked across with an Island which obstructs the prospect into the open Lake, which in such a dreary Country makes it rather pleasant; at the Grand Portage, I met a large party of the Killistenoes and Assinipoils, with their respective Kings and their families, with whom I tarried about a fortnight, and learned many things from them of their Country, Traffic &c. They were come to this place, in order to meet the Traders from Michillimackinac, who were bound to the North West. On the beginning of October I arrived at Cadato Fort, at the falls of St. Mary, at the South West, corner of the Lake Superior; the land on the North and East parts of this Lakes is very Mountainous and Barren, two very large Rivers enter on the North and North East, the one called Allanippignon River leads to a band of the Chipeways, that inhabit on a Lake of that name, the other Michipiston River that leads near St. James's Bay, and has but a short Carriage into a River that enters there to a Fort belonging to the Hudsons Bay Company, it was in this passage that the party of French from Michillimackinac invaded the settlements of the Company in Queen Ann's Wars and took [[catchword]] their [[/catchword]]
