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to support a man's weight, the party generally 

 walked more briskly than usual ; but three of the 

 seamen and two of the sappers and miners were so 

 lame, that Ave were obliged to make long and 

 frequent halts to allow them to close in, and were 

 unable to accomplish two geographical miles in the 

 hour. To spare their strength, we encamped at 

 the early hour of 2 p.m., having marched about 

 ten miles and a half. Deer, geese, and ptarmigan, 

 were seen in abundance during the day. In the 

 evening the weather became cold, with rain, snow, 

 and hail. 



On the 7th our morning's march was performed 

 in a snow-storm, with a chilly northerly wind. 

 About four miles from last night's sleeping- place, 

 we came to a chain of narrow lakes, lying parallel 

 to the river, and emptying themselves into it by a 

 small stream which issues from their northern 

 extremity. They are three miles in length, and 

 lie about a mile from the river. We afterwards 

 forded two rapid torrents full of large greenstone 

 boulders. One of them flows through a narrow 

 chasm in friable dark-red sandstone, and the other 

 is bounded by clifl*s of red quartz rock, or perhaps 

 of trap, but I could not approach them near 

 enough for examination. The discomfort of the 

 march was greatly augmented by the freezing of 

 our clothes, wet in crossing the streams, and we 



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