the further part ©f it, iaa order to difcover if there frfos.. apw pjfihfrbffijy
pf pur being able to get from thence » the courfe of tfeg ês&ü Jt ip
about five nailee iii eirpaiafpreneo^iand I i^;i'e§)S3^§haöiffigriiged*^p
find that the greater part of the, wood with whigh it was.; fp#mj§§jy gp.-
verad, had been .cut clown, within - twelve m fiftee.n? p£ars,rra:nd thatthe
remaining dumps wejg become; altogether rotten;; On snaking inquiry
concerning the. ;Ga.üfe, óf; this extraoindmar^ ;eufej^pafiranpe,:.th.e Epgfifh
chief informed me, that feveral winters ago, many of the Slave,Ij$jia|$g
inhabited the iflands that were feajtered ct^en thg;b&y, m the fifrgoiigdwig
water« abound with fife throughput the peafi but that, they bad; bèpp
driven away by -the; Knjftenaux,; who continually; mad©WM
I f an ^abfiferaeut is to be prade/id thia-eo^ffiMy, it muft&ehrtfcg n#gbK
bjourhoosd o f thisrpiace pmaecoupt of fee wóöd aaddbffififteïy,;
A t eleven, w©,veptuiied to' reienfeaark, as the.jwidd hadcfefereplêhe
greateft part of iheagppaft the ifiand, tbpUghwe.tlfihhad fefceaeoMiter
fome broken pieces of it, which threatened-tefafe m a g « • We
fleered South-Eaft from point to point acrols five bays, twenty-o.ne mil®.
"Wfe took foundings ;feyerpi. ianesi and found from fix to ten fathom
water. I observed tfeat the country gradually .ddehudfidiluiaudii and
was ftill better covered with wood than .in the Mgher; pa$tsfc; Whgrfepr
we approached the land, .wé- perceiy'èd defeated- IpdgfiSK The hunters
killed two fwans and a beaver; and at length we landed ab fight:p’plpck
in thé evening, when we unloaded and gummed our canoe.
W t continued our route/att five ©’ploek, fleering South-EaA for ten
miles aerefs two deep bays :• then SoudiTSó#h-Eafl,ywitb;£fianis; id fight
to
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w 4hë Eèflward*.'* We then traverfed vi^Qthëfl^iri^d courfe of'three *789.
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miles, then South one mile to a point which :■ we named the Detour,, and —v—-•
SPUth'-Sodth-Weft four miles and an half, when there ’was anheavy
fwell off the lake.1 Here I took an obfertfa&iott, wten-ivtei i^ire id
(Si> 40?'Noit-fe latitude; We'thèd^oéPÊïfedillouffcWefi; Jofel nöfeè, aijd
Wéft-Söüt-h-Weft'among ifiands : on,Odè o f wliieli^bur Indians killed
two rein-deer, but We loft three hours aft wind in goikg for them ■: this
cóurier>%as mine miles. ’ About fe-vèn in the evening we wérh obliged!©,
land for the- night, as the wind became t-O© ftrong frqfe the;; Spüth-Èaft.
We thought we could obferve land in this direólion when the wind was
cdmin g lbnf from -fome‘rdiftan’se. "<3n the Other fide o f the Detour, .‘-thè; ■
land is l©Vf{ and' -the ft© ré is Mt add dahgfefeus, flier© being no-fale
plaëeftpland in bad'weather, exemt in the iflands' which wé had juft
'■ *ö$6i&' plenty 'of mdofJpapl rem-deer| m^this,
'countty, a-S we>- few 'their tracks whe-révédWe' landed. ; There were '< alfo
g-redt numbers- o f white- partridges,:whieh are at’.-this: feafon Pf a ‘gtfèy
cblPiiiy like'that of the- moör-fowh Tlïére WÜsfotne ftoating1 ice in the
lake,1 and ' the Indians killed a coUple>Of fwans. \ |
■ ■ At three this., .morning we|weie m theóaaioef after having pafiéd a- Very Saturday 27.. '
reftlefs night from the peffeeution o f the muffeiftafesf ^The weather was
fine: and calm, and our courfe Weft-South-Weft nine miles, when we
came to the foot of a traverfê, the oppófité point in fight bearing South-
Weft^ diuance twelve miles. The pay is at leaft eight miles deep, and this
courfe two miles more, in all ten miles. It now, became very foggy, and as
the bays were fo numerous, we landed for two hours, when the wéatnèr
cleared upy ana we took thé advantage of fteèrihg South thirteen miles,
and.