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 the portage of Yjadakoin. It began at the mouth of a little stream called Rivière aux pommes ["apple River"],—the 3rd that is met after entering the lake, and thus it may be easily recognized."

On the seventeenth the party began the tedious portage and "made a good league." On the day following "our people being fatigued, we shortened the intervals between the stations, and we hardly made more than half a league the 22nd, the portage was entirely accomplished."

Six days were thus spent in crossing the nine-mile path—a very good indication of how difficult was the journey. And yet Bonnècamps affirms "The road is passably good." This road was opened by a detachment under Villiers and Le Borgne sent out by Céloron on the sixteenth—"nearly three-quarters of a league of road" being cleared the first day.

A detailed study of this path has been made by Dr. H. C. Taylor of Brocton, New