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CHAPTER I.

| Enbarked ait Fort Chepewyan, on the Lake of the Hills, an company with x _M. Le Roux. Account of the party, provifions, Sc. Diretivon of : ‘ the courfe. Enter one of the branches of the Lake. Arrive tm the Peace Rwer. Appearance of the land. Navigation of the river. Arrive at the mouth of the Dog River. Succeffive defcroption of feveral carrying places. A canoe loft in one of the Falls. Encamp on Point de Roche. & Courfe continued. Set the nets, Sc. Arrive at the Slave Lake. The 4 weather extremely cold. Banks of the river defcribed, with. its trees, foil, Sc. Account of the animal productions, and the fifhery of the Lake. Obliged to wart till the moving of the ace. Three families of Indians arrive from Athabafca. Beavers, gecfe, and fwans killed. The nets endangered by ice. Re-imbark and land on a fmall ifland. Courfe continued along the fhores, and acrofs the bays of the Lake. Various cee Jfucceffés of the hunters. Steer for an ifland where there was plenty of cranberries and fmall onions. Kull feveral rein deer. Land on an

wfland named Ifle ala Cache. Clouds of mufquatoes.

1789.

June.

WeE embarked at nine o’clock in the morning, at Fort Chepewyan, on the South fide of the Lake of the Hills, in latitude 58. 40. North, and Tongitude 110, 30. Weft from Greenwich, and compafs has fixteen, Br degrees

SS) Wednef, 3.

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