﻿180 CHETA-UT-TINNE. July, 



the Daliadinnh who frequent its banks, and La 

 Riviere de Gravoir by the voyagers. It joins the 

 Mackenzie in latitude 64J° N., and is said to issue 

 from a large lake, situated on the summit, or even 

 on the western side, of the Rocky Mountain range. 

 The impediments to its navigation have prevented 

 it from being used as a channel for the Company's 

 trade; and it has been as yet only partially ex- 

 plored, though it has been thought that a route 

 might be discovered through it to the banks of the 

 Yukon. The Dahadinnes speak a dialect of the 

 Chepewyan tongue. Mr. M'Kenzie, the gentleman 

 in charge of Fort Norman, to which these people 

 resort, informed me that their correct designation 

 in their own language is Cheta-uf-tirme or 'Dtcheta- 

 ta-ut-timie, which, being also the national name of 

 the Beaver and Strong-bow or Mountain Indians, 

 points them out as members of the same nation. 



