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Cratoelg anbwhich are found here during the greater partof" the season, weighing in general from sixpounds to fifteen.The method of taking them is this: eachcanoe carries two men, one of whom steerswith a paddle, and the other isprovided with apole ten feet in length, and at the end of whichis affixed a scoop-net. The steersman sets thecanoe from the eddy of one rock to that ofanother; while the fisherman in the prow, whosees through the pellucid element the preyof which he is in pursuit, dips his net andsometimes brings up at every succeeding dipas many as it can contain. The fish are oftencrowded together in the water in great numbers,and a skilful fisherman in autumn will takefive hundred in two hours.This fishery is of great moment to the surroundingIndians, whom it supplies with alarge proportion of their winter's provision;for having taken the fish in the manner described,they cure them by drying in the smoke,and lay them up in large quantities.There is at present a village of Chipewa offifty warriors seated at this place; but the inhabitantsreside here during the summer only,going westward in the winter to hunt. Thevillage was anciently much more populous.At the south are also seen a few of the wanderingO'pimittish Ininiwac, literally Men ofotherwise called Wood Indians andthe Woods,Gens de Terresa peaceable and inoffensive61