The only consolation to the contemplative soul, who does not have to portage, is that "The stream is turbulent and unfriendly in the extreme, but in romantic variety, and in natural beauty nothing can exceed this picture." High rocks are seen, beetling over the rapids like towers, and are rent into the most diversified forms, gay with various colored masses, or shaded by overhanging hills--now there is a tranquil pool lying like a sheet of silver--now the dash and foam of a cataract--these are but parts of this picturesque and striking scene.
But Fall Portage was only a culmination, in this fiercely rushing Trout River, for above it a dozen rapids are to be passed with toilsome energy.

After this the party is rewarded with beautiful islets, and the lake for a length of thirty-five miles lies in a fertile tract of country.

It was formerly appropriately called Holy Lake, and as a summit lake suggests to the traveller abiding restfulness.

To the traders on their route whether passing up or down the water courses, it was always so.

After the long and tedious voyaging it was their Elysium.