advanced with it up the mountains havirig th'e line doubled 'and faftehèd
'— -v— ' fucceffively as we went on to the fturapsy while a man at the end of.
it, hauled it round a tre^f holding it >on and«lhifting j t as We pro-J
ee^ed^f may be laid, wkh r ftri-Q; ■ truth, to - have warpcd/the
eanoe upthe mountain: indeed by a general and .maftlabortaiis-exer^
tion^ we got every thing to the fummit by two in the afternoons1 <At
noon,, the latitude was -56. W47 North. At (five,4 : lent the merr to'v'eM
the road onwards, which they eflè&ed far about a mile,-when they*
returned..;.
§ The leather was cloudynt in tervals, with. Ihowers: and thunder. & At
about ten, I obferved an emerfion.of Jupiter’s jfeeondrfateftite ; time
by the achrometer,.8. 32. 20. by which I found.* the Tqngitude to be
120. 29.- 30.-Weft from Greenwich.
Thurflay sg. The weather was clear, at four this- moming, when tHê ffien'-began'to
jeariy.: I joined Mr. Mackay, andl the; two* Indjansi of
putting a rpad. The ground continued rifirfg gently tilhnOtfe,. when it
began to decline; bat though on fuch an* elevated fittfatfcfihj-wë eöuld
Jee but littl% as mountains of_a ftill higher elevation and covered With
ihow,. Wereg | jg jf&r,al>o»fc us in everyrrdiïëéèiomo In ;* # ^ e r ib o n
•the ground became very uneven; hillsan d;de^tde ffif^a lj^i^
Tented themfelves to. us. Our pxogrefs^ ihowever, excéeded--rfiy égpéé-
.tation, and it was not till four in the afternoon that the catrië:rs èVer-
.took us. A t Ive, iq aRate of fatigue that may b e fo r e * readily
Reived than expreffed, wé encamped near a rivulet or fpring that iflued
' from beneath a large mafs of ide and.fndW.' ü
Our
T Our/ito’ihomet- jbuTney of This day If compute at about three miles ; *|$3*
dlorig 'the • firlb of whicb; -the land- is covered with plenty of wood, con- 1 —v
fiftingiof large trees; encumbered with little underwóod, through which
it was by no means difficult to: open a road, by following a wèll-beaten
élk path :; tfof the' two fucceedrng miles we found the country overspread
with- the trunks octrees, laid lowday foeTbme years ago; among
Which large copfes had-fprung’ up of a- clofe' growth, and intermixed
with briars, foiras*. to.'render the paflagë ' through them painful and
fediou#T The-foil- in the.1'woods .isTight and o fad u lk y colour; that
in the burned-country is admixture of land and clay with fmall ftones.
sThe trees i am %ru®; red-pine, teyprefs, .poplar; white birch, willow,
alder, arrow-wood, -red-wood, liard, fervice-tree, -bois-picant, &C. I
never law any of the. kft kind before. I t rifes to about nine feet in
height, - grows in joints without branches, and is tufted, at The extremity.
The Item is of an etjual fize from thé'-bottom to the top, and does not
exceed an inch in diameter; it is covered with fmall prickles, which
caught our trowfers, and working'through them, fometimes found their
way to the flelh. The Ihrubs are, the goofcberry,. the currant, and
feveral kinds of briars.
f- We continued our very laborious journey, which led us down fome Friday 24.
fteep hills, and through a wood of tall pines. After much toil and trouble
in bearing the eaUoe through the difficult pafiages which we ’ encountered,
at; fpur in the afternoon we arrived at the river, fbme hundred
yards above the rapids or falls, with all our' baggage. I compute the dif-
tance of this day’s,- progrefs to be about four miles; indeed I ffiould havfe
meafured the whole o f the way, if I-.had not been obliged to engage pef-
A a 2 ' fonally