jme* ’WfflS • «óvciüowed, and: wie paffed \^ïSb the canoe-5 stanOflg '-the
—-J ferasnehes of trees. The principal wood -alöngthe-bönks is Tpraee,
intermixed wfiili a few- wiste bifóh, growing oh Öetachèd fpots, thfc
■ intervening {paces 'Ibdbg -coyfered (with 'wdlowsuand aider. We*ad-
vanced about a jmife-üh the lake, ahd took up bur ftation For the higHt
at an old'Indian encarhpment i Here weiexpdlted to «aeet 'Wiis bathes,
bat were difappointed-; but om giuide encour-agediis with ithfe bope’ df
•feeing Tome sen theraonrow. Wefaw beaver in the hourfe o f the‘after-
moon; bat idid<nOt dafchang^ but’’ pieces; from thé fear-of alartróng ■ tfië
inhabitant^;/ -tbere were alfos iwafas ia great kuSSfeex^i #iÉlT^ e f e -atwl
ducks, which we did not diftufb forthedaame' réglbiav We bÖfënvéd^ailJb
the tracks o f nioofe-deer that had cröfled the fiver; ”and Wild parfiiëpl
■ grew here in abundance, which' have beea already mentioned as a grateful
vegetable. O f birds, we faw fokte jaysfytll©# birds, and-ohJBèSÖt!-
•ful humming-bird: o f the -Gift and laft, I foadmot^feëmkhy^mfeT tófl
been :in the North-Weft.
1 The weather was the fame as yefterday, and we'pfoëeededbetweëh three
and four in the morning. We took lip'turret w'hidh‘vie’had fet the preceding
evening, when it contained a trout, One white hiijbhe Ca-rp,‘ahÜ
three jufe. The lake is about two miles in-fength; Eaft by Seaithi and from
«three to five, hundred yards wide. This I confider -a§5 the foigheft and
.Sonthernmoft fource of the Upjigafo, or ffeatee River, latitude; ’54. b j .
No^rih, longitude 1 dè.' Weft-of Greenwidh, Which, aftera hvrhömg cbuffe
•through a vaft extent of country,'flébeivhig many large riVers dri- its pro*
gcefs, and paiflifig through the Slave Lafce,ieöiptie6 itfelf into the Frozen
•0 ^njdnyö^Nbrth;latit<itder ffnd alfout 135 Weft longitude.
We
NORTH-WEST CONTINENT OF AMERICA.
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1 jgW0 landed and unloaded, where we found a beaten, path leading
Over a few ridge of land! of eigj^t hunzted and feventeen. paces i® length ^
^rfthoiferi.bpall fake, ;The diftaneeibdtween'the two'.mduktajns at this
glaee is aboutta quarter of a mile, rocky^ pt^eipigjesf pr®fentiitg themi-
felv^ ©a both fides., A few large* ifpruce .trees and bards were featured.
©terc the ca rrying-place.There. wwrft.alfo widows along th@
f^eicf the: water, with pfehty q f grafe and weed» ( Thd-pa;tiyes had fefb
their bid canoesherej with.baflset^' hahging on the 'teees,which containedr
trarkmsi.articles. From the latthr Litook aip&t, f©m@ hooks,ja^fgoafs-*
horn, and a kind-of wooden trap-,-in which, as our. guide informed me,
the ground-hog ;is taken-.- I left* ,heN^gr, in e^haflige^ a-knife, fpm©
fire-ftetlsybeadsy kwfe| ltcvi Here'tlvb feiams-! tujnble down the' rocks
frdm the right, and I'ofePthemfelves in the* lake which we had left; while
two others* fall-from-the oppofite heights*, •andgM1b*iiit©'the lake which
we ‘were approaching,; this being thfehigheft points of land5 #^diiig fcbef©
waters, and we are now- going with the ftreami Thisjake runs in the fame
eourfe as the Fall, but is rather narrOwer, and not more fchan half the-leiigth.‘
Wb Wcke bbligetf to bfear away* fome floating drilUwood- te^get to *ehe
carrying-placfe, ov^r which is a beaten' pith of only* -hundred ant?
{fevetity-fivfe paces long. The lake empties itfeff b}? a final? liver;which,
if the channel were nbt interrupted b y large trees that had fallen acrofs
it;' would- have admitted o f our canoe, with-, all its, lading : the impediment,,
indeed, might have been rejmoyedj by -two axe-men,in a few-hours.
On the edge'of the Water, we, obferved a large quantity of thick, yeflqw,
fcum or froth, of as acrid taftb arid fmell.,;'
June.