CHAP. V. 



PIERRE S RIVER. 



crack to a height of seventy feet above the level of the 

 river ; and through it a channel had been excavated, in 

 the usual manner in which rivers wind through a soft 

 deposit in a narrow valley, forming flats and points, and, 

 as in the present case, at every great bend coming to the 



PERPENDICULAR HOCKS ON THE MOISIE. 



wall of rocks which limit the Moisie valley on either 

 hand. 



Snow was visible in masses on the distant mountains, 

 seen up the valley of the East Branch. A conical hill, 

 perhaps 250 feet high, is the termination of the peninsula 

 which separates the East Branch from the Main River. 



' That 's my river,' said Pierre, pointing up the East 

 Branch, ' where I hunted last year. My marten line goes 

 over those hills ; there 's where I killed the bear.' 



We held a consultation whether we should take the 



