145. _Grues_ The white crane, _Grus Americanus_ Adult plumage pure white _Coues's Key to North American Birds_, Boston, 1872, p 271 Charlevoix says, "We have cranes of two colors, some white and others _gris de lin_," that is a purple or lilac color. This latter species is the brown crane, _Grus Canadensis_. "Plumage plumbeous gray." _Coues_. _Vide Charlevoix's Letters_, London. 1763, p 83. 146. The latitude of the eastern end of Amherst Island is about 44 deg. 11'. 147. This traverse, it may be presumed, was made by coasting along the shore, as was the custom of the savages with their light canoes. 148. It appears that, after making by estimate about fourteen leagues in their bark canoes, and four by land along the shore, they struck inland. Guided merely by the distances given in the text, it is not possible to determine with exactness at what point they left the lake. This arises from the fact that we are not sure at what point the measurement began, and the estimated distances are given, moreover, with very liberal margins. But the eighteen leagues in all would take them not very far from Little Salmon River, whether the estimate were made from the eastern end of Amherst Island or Simcoe Island, or any place in that immediate neighborhood. The natural features of the country, for four leagues along the coast north of Little Salmon River, answer well to the description given in the text. The chestnut and wild grape are still found there. _Vide MS. Letters of the Rev. James Cross, D.D., LL.D., and of S.Z. Smith, Esq._, of Mexico, New York. 149. Lake Ontario, or Lake of the Entouhonorons, is about a hundred and eighty miles long, and about fifty-five miles in its extreme width. 150. The river here crossed was plainly Oneida River, flowing from Oneida Lake into Lake Ontario. The lake is identified by the islands in it. Oneida Lake is the only one in this region which contains any islands whatever, and consequently the river flowing from it must be that now known as Oneida River. 151. For the probable site of this fort, see Vol. I. p. 130, note 83. 152. They were of the tribe called Carantouanais. _Vide antea_, note 134. 153. This was in the month of October. 154. _Et apres auoir trauerse le bout du lac de laditte isle_. From this form of expression this island would seem to have been visited before. But no particular island is mentioned on their former traverse of the lake. It is impossible to fix with certainty upon the island referred to. It may have been Simcoe or Wolf Island, or some other. 155. Probably Cataraqui Creek. _Vide_ Vol. I. p. 136. 156. Perhaps Loughborough Lake, or the system of lakes of which this is a part.