124 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

ote: laft, which is about a mile onwards, is fomething more than two thirds of
Obder.

—-—’ that diflance. Here we found feveral fires, from which circumftance we

concluded, that the canoes deftined for this quarter, which left the fort —
fome days before us, could not be far a-head. The weather continued
to be very cold, and the fnow that fell during the night was feveral

inches deep.

On the morning of the 18th, as foon as we got out of the draught of the
fall, the wind being at North-Eaft, and ftrong in our favour, we hoifled

fail, which carried us on at a confiderable rate againft the current, and

paffed the Loon River before twelve o’clock; from thence we foon came
along the Grande I{le, at the upper end of which we encamped for the

night. It now froze very hard: indeed, it had fo much the appearance of
winter, that I began to entertain fome alarm left we might be flopped by
the ice: we therefore fet off at three o’clock in the morning of the 19th,
and about eight we landed at the Old Eftablifhment.

The paflage to this place from Athabafca having been furveyed by
M. Vandrieul, formerly in the Company’s fervice, I did not think it ne-

ceflary to give any particular attention to it; I fhall, however, juft ob-
ferve, that the courfe in general from the Lake of the Hills to the falls,
is Welfterly, and as much to the North as the South of it, from thence
it is about Weft-South-Weft to this fort.

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The country in general is low from our entrance of the river to
the falls, and with the exception of a few open parts covered with:
grafs, it is clothed with wood, Where the banks are very low

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