This season my goods were taken by batteaus from Stillwater to Clam lake.
The first mail, established in 1840, was carried up the St. Croix river by batteaus in summer and by sleds over the ice in winter.
The batteaus frequently rested on the mud, and we labored hard up to the knees in mud and entangled among the roots and rotten stumps of trees.
Left landing with sevenbatteaus and three pirogues loaded with provisions, and proceeded to the dam, which we opened and yet found the water so scanty that it was with the greatest difficulty we passed the chemin couvert.
The reaches in this river are long between rapid and rapid, but navigable for batteaus only.
So fast had the Indians worked while the leadsmen were in the channel that it required but a few minutes more to reduce the draught of the batteaus to the scale.
No great boats could be transferred by such means; this fact had a tendency to limit the carrying capacity of Mohawk batteaus to about one and a half tons.
Early this morning, we embarked on board our batteaus and proceeded on our way.
Though it seemed as though we could hardly ascend it without any burden, we succeeded in dragging our batteaus and baggage up it.
This day we carried our batteausand baggage round Ticonnick falls.
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