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it passes through the Suchawagan and several other lakes, and has two portages or carrying places around rapids. It enters the Rainy Lake River from the left and is the largest tributary of that stream, containing probably as much water as the main stream above the confluence. This river is about three hundred miles in length and has a very rapid current.

Grand Island (or Coleaspi) a beautiful island in Cass Lake near the source of the Mississippi river, occupied by the Indians as the site of a village-See [Coleaipi?]

Grand Portage, the lower portage on the St. Louis river of Lake Superior, twenty one miles above the mouth of the river and six miles below the "Portage aux Coteaux" or "Knife portage". This portage is nine miles in extent, in which distance the descent of the river is estimated to be about one hundred and

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