s i The weather was ,clear. and fharjp,, and .between three and' four
in the morning' we renewed/bur-vvpyage,.- our firftcourfe being Weft
by ,South three miles and. an half* when the pen complained of the
cold in stheir/fingers,i e^'tbef were obliged to pufh on the ci#oe/Wkh
the poles. Here . a fmall. rper-flowed in from the North. j We now.
continued to fteer Weft-South-Weft a, quarter of, .a mile, .Weft.^North-
Weft a mile and an half, and Weft two. miles, whe.n w-e found our-
lelves on a parallel with. a chain o f mountains on both fidestbprjyer,
running South and North. The river, both yefterday and the early part
of to-day.,' was from four to eight hundred yards wide* and fall o.f iflands^
but was at this time dhnini-fhed to about two.hundred-yards^breath, and
free from iflands, with a Irnooth but ftrong next couffe
was ‘ South-Weft two miles, when we encountered, a rapid, and faw arif
encampment o f the Knifteneaux. | We now/proceeded North-Weft- b:y
Weft one mile, among iflands, South-Weft by Weft three quarters o f
a mile, South-SouthrEaft one mile, veered to South-Weft through iflands
three miles and an half, and South by Eaft half a mile. ."Here a river
poured, in on the left, whicjhwas the moft confiderable that we had feen
fince we had palled the mountain. At feven m the evening we landed
and encamped.
Though the fun had Ihone upon us throughout; the - day, the air
was lo cold that the men, though a&ively employed, eoul$ not refill it
without the aid of their blanket coats. This cjrcumftance might in
(pipe degree be expeHed from the furrounding mountains; which were
covered with ice and fnow; but as they are not fo. high as to .produce
the extreme eold. which we fuffered, it mull be more particularly attributed
btfted^ó' thé’ hfghf^tuyrion ébthé’cbüntry itfelf, rather than to the local
elevation of the mountain®,'th® greateft'height of whidh does not exceed
fifteen hundred feet 'r though in general they do mot rife to half that alti-
.as I had not’-been'aM'ë: tty take an exa£f meafurement, I do
not- prefumd upon the éfcbiiraöy o f’ibyfteonjeHure. Towards thé'bottom
of thefe'heights’,1 which were’clearf of Tnow, the trees were putting forth
their leaves, -while thole-in ‘thhif mid'dle' t’egibri ftilhretained •'all the cha-
jiafteriftics^of winter, and oh thèir- bppef’ parts there Wets littfé or no
•wood; :
* The, weather was clear, and we contihued pur voyage--at -the-ufual
hour, when,we fucceffiyely found feveral rapids-and/pqints to impede our
iprog'refs. 4 ;At noon our;}latitude was, *$5* 5* -^4.; *North. The* Indians
killed a flag-; -and one. o f the men-who-went* to fetch- iÖWas’ very much
endangered,by- the rolling down of atlarge-fton^ifrom the heights aböVe
him.
* • The day was very cloudy. The mountains'Off both fidds o f the rivet Tuefday 28.
ffeemed to have fuuk, Urr the;if''élèWaiionj, dhring' the voyage of yefterday.
,To-day they-refumed their -former akiipte-yand run fo clofe-on either -fide
of the channel, that alb view was eXeludedof every thing but themfëlvesi.
This-part o f thè current was’not broken by iflands; butïfl fhe afternoon
we approached foiiie cascades; which obliged us to carry; our canoe and
|fs lading for feveral hundred yaftS.-5 Here.weobferved ah encampment
* Frpm. this day, to the, 4th of Jur^e, the, cpuifes^ï fflj« j,v < lOfflitted,» as X Ao Ihfthe ,bM)k, that j
^contained them. I was: in the nablt óf fometitnes indulging mpeff with a fhört .doze iii the ’cStioe, and
-I imagine that the branches of the trees bruihed my book from me, when I was in fuch a fituation,
which fenders the account of thefe few days lefs diftinQ; than ufual.
Monday 27.
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