Note 206 — Chapter XXVII
J. V. (Jedediah Vincent) Huntington translation
Dog Portage is that which leads over the Height of Land between the Lake Superior and Hudson Bay water-systems. It is about forty-five miles from Fort William, and about a mile in length and five hundred feet high. Authorities differ on the origin of the name. One Indian tradition recites that two enormous dogs slept upon the hill, leaving the impress of their figures. Another relates that the Indians carved upon a cliff the figure of a dog, to commemorate a great battle between the Sioux and Chippewa.
Boucher was apparently a free trapper, whom Henry had found selling provisions in this neighborhood as early as 1803.—Ed.