Lake St.Clair was about 6 miles, the length
of said Lake 21 miles, from the N.W. end of
Lake St. Clair to the entrance of Lake Huron,
through a very beautiful River, 15 Leagues, from
the lower end of Lake Huron to the rapids
of St.Mary's (the entrance into Lake Superior),
72 Leagues, at the rapids of St.Mary's there
is a portage of a mile and a half, when goods
are again shipped in large Vessells, who
carry them 100 Leagues up Lake Superior to what is called
the Grand Portage, from whence they go
in small Canoes, to the North west.- He says
that there are above One thousand Men
constantly employed in the N.W. Trade
above the Grand Portage. - He further says
there are many mistakes in the drafts heretofore
made of the Lakes, they not being done from
actual surveys, but principally from
the vague reports of Canadian traders &ca. - that
the tales that have been told respecting Thund
Thunder Bay in Lake Huron is altogether a
farce, that in the course of many years, which
he has now sail'd upon that Lake, he never