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As near as I can get at it, that was pretty near the real divide between the eastern and western waters that is to say, not far from where the small stream leads back to McLeod Lake, and the McLeod Lake portage across to the Fraser, the way the fur-traders went later on. That's the Giscombe portage route. It's a lot easier than the one we've taken, too."
Everybody goes that way, and has done so for years. But that isn't the old canoe trail of Mackenzie and Fraser." "Everybody goes on the Giscombe Portage now," said Moise. "Well, all the fur-traders used to come in here, at least before they had studied out this country very closely. You see, they didn't have any maps they were the ones who made the first maps.
Look here," he added, examining the map, "here are the altitudes all marked on by the government surveyors twenty-five hundred feet above sea-level at Giscombe Portage, twenty-two hundred and fifty at Fort McLeod. I suppose it was about three thousand feet where we started across. At the mouth of the Finlay it's only two thousand feet a big drop.
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