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place on the Outaouais. At the height of ahundred feet above the river I commonlyfound pebbles worn into a round form likethose upon the beach below. Everywhere thewater appears to have subsided from itsancient levels; and imagination may anticipatean era at which even the banks of Newfoundlandwill be left bare.The southern shores of Lake Nipisingue arerocky, and only thinly covered with pine treesand spruce, both, as in several instances alreadymentioned, of a small stature. Thecarrying-place of La Chaudiere Franchise isat the head of the River des Francais, andwhere the water first descends from the levelof Lake Nipisingue toward that of Lake Huron.This it does not reach till it has passed downmany rapids, full of danger to the canoes andthe men, after which it enters Lake Huron byseveral arms, flowing through each as throughmill-race. The River des Francais 25 istwentyleagues in length and has manyislands in itschannel. Its banks are uniformly of rock.Among the carrying-places at which we successivelyarrived are the Portage des Pins, or26du Pin; de la Grande Faucille; de la PetiteFauciUe; and du Sault du Recolet. 27 Near the25Modern French River. Editor.26 Faucille, Fr. a sickle. Author.27So called, perhaps, on account of the resemblanceof this Sault to that of the Sault du Recolet, between32