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fifteen miles long- and ten miles below it passes through Little Lake Winnepeck, which is about five miles long and three wide. From these lakes the river takes a more southern course. Between Cass Lake and the Falls of Pickagama the river is very crooked, and bordered on both sides with swamps.

[OMIT] "The channel of the river through these swamps" says Lieut. Allen "is sometimes three hundred yards wide, and again branched into many channels which run a short distance and expand into little lakes bordered only with grass growing in the water, and from which other little channels through the tall grass run on to unite with the maine one. The whole country seemed covered with water from one to three feet deep; but the grase rose several feet above the surface in the deepest parts growing very thick."

At the Falls of Pickagama the channel of the river is contracted to eighty feet in width, and there is a fall of twenty or thirty feet in a distance of one hundred yards. It is occasioned by a ledge of quartz rock."