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one canoe down the rapids at a time about 10 oclock A.m. we got all below the last rapids we have any acct. of from the Savages then loaded the canoes ag.? and about 12 oc Set out and proceeded on over Several more rapids at the foot of large Islands. Saw 2 old ancient villages below the big rapids which was evacuated the bark taken off of one of them and put in a pond to soak the frames verry large the mountains verry high on the Lar Side and on the S Side a little back from the river unclear on abt. 4 miles then the river got smooth the current verry gentle The river wide and strait the remdr of the day we passed a creek on L Side & a great nomber of Spring runs and springs flowing from the high clifts and mountains and fell off down 200 feet or more high clifts on each Side the Indians over took us with their canoes which they carryed past the big rapids Saw 2 Indians dressed in red Scarlet and one in blue cloth which appeared new they had a musket which was made all of brass and copper a powder flask &c toward evening the river got more wide could scarcely perceive any current at all the unclear and clifts cont. all day went 21 miles and Camped under a Shelving? clift & a green on the Lardside Saw this day abundance of geese and killed 16 of them Saw some Swan and brants ducks &c passed one village this after noon on the S Side passed some narrow bottoms high towers of rocks &c the country is timbered but unclear mostly Spruce and pine Some oak &c

Sunday 3rd Nov. 1805 a foogy morning we delayed until abt 9 oclock Several men went out a