Note 50 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS
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Pays Plat was the fur-trade station near the Nipigon River, about one hundred miles east of Grand Portage. It was situated on one of the islands of Nipigon Bay, and so named because of the low land and shoal water in the vicinity. See Bigsby, Shoe and Canoe (London, 1850), p. 223.—Ed.