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Ixviil A GENERAL HISTORY

through iflands, five miles more to Fort Bourbon*, fituated on a
{mall ifland, dividing this from Mud-Lake.

The Cedar Lake*is from four to twelve miles wide, exclufive of the

bays. Its banks are covered with wood, and abound in game, and its

waters produce plenty of fifh, particularly the flurgeon. The Mud-
Lake, and the neighbourhood of the Fort Bourbon, abound with geefe,
ducks, f{wans, &c. and was formerly remarkable for a vaft number of

martens, of which it cannot now boaft but a very fmall proportion.

The Mud-Lake muft have formerly been a part of the Cedar Lake, but
the immenfe quantity of earth and fand, brought down by the Safkatchi-
wine, has filled up this part of it for a circumference whofe diameter is. at
leaft fifteen or twenty miles: part of which fpace is ftill covered with a
few feet of water, but the greate{t proportion is fhaded with large trees, fuch
as the liard, the fwamp-afh, and the willow. This land confifts of many
iflands, which confequently form various channels, feveral of which are
occafionally dry, and bearing young wood. It is, indeed, more than pro-
bable that this river will, in the courfe of time, convert the whole of the
Cedar Lake into a foreft. Tothe North-Weift the cedar is not to be found.

From this lake the Safkatchiwine may be confidered as navigable to
near its fources in the rocky mountains, for canoes, and without a
carrying-place, making a great bend to Cumberland Houfe, on Sturgeon
Lake. From the confluence of its North and South branches its courfe

¥ This was alfo a principal poft of the French, who gave it its name.