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Mall went 15 miles
Tuesday Aug 18 M did not leave
Camp until after dinner
We left the bay and turning northward, left on up this
certain shore. Most of it is rocky and rather high and sparsely wooded
about the middle of the afternoon we passed a bay with
candy shores and high drifted
banks of sand extended back
for some distance. The soil
then became better and the
forest more luxuriant. M
left at about the middle
of the afternoon but found
no kill him. M camped on the
shore in a very mother spot
some of the White Spruces are
14 inches in diameter and about
75 feet high. I cut out some
topsoil. Some & Richardson's oil
at camp also grayshuck think
Bacon, Moore and 139.
Carraban have been killed by
Indians camped here Roberts
MR common here in the evening
Wednesday Aug 19 M left camp rather
early and paddled about 5
miles northward along the Lake
and nearly to its end and entering
a bay on the west side but it
its outlet. M descended second
slight rapids and entered a channel
the current here running very
much. The N shore was sparsely
wooded. The south also for some
distance but perhaps the S shore
is of sand and higher and
well wooded. This channel soon
expanded into a good sized
Lake which we left by a
strait on the W side before
reaching its end. From this we
emerged into Avonlin Lake circular
in outline and perhaps 4 miles
across. On its N.E. shore is
a range of high hills 500-1000
ft high, forested rocky girt
generally wooded. In a
This channel soon expanded into
a long narrow Lake. At its outlet
M made a portage & about half