They got alarmed in the middle of the rapid, the canoe was upset, and every man perished.
The various rapids we passed this day, are produced by an assemblage of islands and rocky ledges, which obstruct the river, and divide it into many narrow channels.

Two of these channels are rendered still more difficult by accumulations of drift timber; a circumstance which has given a name to one of the portages.

The rocks which compose the bed of the river, and the numerous islands, belong to the granite formation.
The distance made to-day was thirteen miles.
_July 21_ .-- We embarked at four A.M.and pursued our course down the river.

The rocks cease at the last portage; and below it the banks are composed of alluvial soil, which is held together by the roots of trees and shrubs that crown their summits.

The river is about a mile wide, and the current is greatly diminished.