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I^enrpof the Winipegon are still further increased.The adjacent lands are mountainous and rocky,but some of the high hills are well covered withbirch and maple.The stream of the Pinawa is shallow and itsbed rocky and broken. The carrying-placesare eight in number. The mosquitoes werehere in such clouds as to prevent us from takingaim at the ducks, of which we might else haveshot many.On the thirteenth we encamped at the Carrying-placeof the Lost Child. Here is a chasmin the rock, nowhere more than two yards inbreadth, but of great and immeasurable depth.The Indians relate that many ages past a childfell into this chasm, from the bottom of whichit is still heard at times to cry. In all the wetlands wild rice grows plentifully.The Pinawa istwenty leagues long, and dischargesitself into Lake du Bonnet 37 at threeleagues to the north of the mouth of the Winipegon,which falls into the same lake, or ratherforms it; for Lake du Bonnet is only a broadenedpart of the channel of the Winipegon. Thelake is two leagues broad, and the river in itscourse below continues broader than it isabove, with many islands and deep falls;theportages in this portion of the Winnipeg, and saved, inaddition, several miles of travel. Editor.37Cap Lake, in some maps written Cat Lake. Author.Instead of twenty leagues, the Pinawa is but eighteenmiles long. Editor.238