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Ixvi A GENERAL HISTORY

Thofe on the North fide are inconfiderable, owing to the comparative
vicinity of the high land that feparates the waters coming this way,
from thofe difcharging into Hudfon’s bay, The courfe of the lake is
about Weft-North-Weft, and South-South-Eaft, and the Eaft end of it
is in 50.37. North. It contraéts at about a quarter of its length to a
firait, in latitude 51. 45. and is no more than two miles broad, where the
South fhore is gained through iflands, and croffing various bays to the
difcharge of the Safkatchiwine, in latitude 59. 15. This lake, in common
with thofe of this country, is bounded on the North with banks of black
and grey rock, and on the South by a low, level country, occafionally
interrupted with a ridge or bank of lime-{tones, lying in flratas, and rif-
ing to the perpendicular height of from twenty to forty feet; thefe are
covered with a fmall quantity of earth, forming a level furface, which
bears timber, but of a moderate growth, and declines to a fwamp.
Where the banks are low, it is evident in many places that the waters
are withdrawn, and never rife to thofe heights which were formerly
wafhed by them.

The inhabitants who are found along this lake, are of the Knilfte-

neaux and Algonquin tribes, and but few im number, though game is not

- fcarce, and there is fifh in great abundance. The black bafs is found

there, and no further Weft; and beyond it no maple trees are feen,
either hard or foft.

On entering the Safkatchiwine, in the courfe of a few miles, the
great rapid interrupts the paflage. It is about three miles long. Through
the greateft part of it the canoe is towed, half or full laden, according to

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