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wintered here in safety and plenty, and it was to 

 this place that I contemplated conducting any of 

 the crews of the Discovery ships that we might be 

 so happy as to find. To it, also, I purposed to send 

 large portion of my party in the winter of 1848-9. 

 In no other part of the Hudson's Bay Company's 

 territories, that I am acquainted with, can so many 

 people be maintained, with so niuch certainty, on 

 the resources of the country. A body of good 

 native hunters, well supplied with ammunition, 

 could not fail to bring from the Horn Mountain 

 an agreeable variety of diet in form of rein-deer 

 and bison meat, and in some seasons the American 

 hare may be snared in great numbers. 



After we had rowed about thirty-four or thirty- 

 five miles from our encampment of the preceding 

 night, the funnel-shaped entrance of the river had 

 contracted to a width of about two miles, and the 

 current, as it washed the boulders of the beach, 

 made a bubbling noise, like that of a strong rapid ; 

 and not long afterwards we shot a rapid, the river 

 having still further narrowed. The barking crow 

 {Corvus americanus) is not seen to the northward 

 of this place. In the Faima Boreali- Americana^ 

 I have stated that it does not range beyond 

 the 55th parallel; but more correct information, 

 received on the present voyage, enables me to 

 carry its northern limit on to the 6 1st. It 



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