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it might live very comfortably, if they were not fo immoderately fond

of fpirituous liquors.

This lake is alfo rendered remarkable, in confequence of the Americans
having named it as the fpot, from which a line of boundary, between
them and Britifh America, was to run Weil, until it {truck the Mififfippi ;
which, however, can never happen, as the North-Weit part of the
Lake du Bois is in latitude 49. 37. North, and longitude 94. 31 Weft,
and the Northernmoft branch of the fource of the Miffiffippi is in lati-
tude 47.98. North, and longitude g5. 6. Welt, afcertained by Mr.
Thomfon, aftronomer to the North-Weft Company, who was fent ex-
prefsly for that purpofe in the {pring of 1798. He, in the fame year, de-
termined the Northern bend of the Mifhifoury to be in latitude 47. 32.
North, and longitude 101. 25, Weft; and, according to the Indian ac-
counts, it runs to the fouth of Weft, fo that if the Miffifoury were even
to be confidered as the Miffiffippi, no Weftern line could ftrike it,

It does not appear to me to be clearly determined what courfe the
Line is to take, or from what part of Lake Superior it firikes through
the country to the Lake du Bois: were it to follow the principal waters
to their fource, it ought to keep through Lake Superior to the River
St. Louis, and follow that river to its fource ; clofe to which is the fource
of the waters falling into the river of Lake la Pluie, which is a common
route of the Indians to the Lake du Bois: the St. Louis pafles within
a fhort diftance of a branch of the Mifliffippi, where it becomes na-
vigable for canoes, This will appear more evident from confulting

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