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CHAP. IV, 



Difficult and toilsome Ascent of Hoar Frost River. — 

 Strikiiig Scenery along its Course. — Illness of the 

 Interpreter. — Encampment upon Cook's Lake. — As- 

 cent of another small River full of Rapids. — Deser- 

 tion of two Indians. — Perplexity of the Guide as to 

 the proper Course, and Attempt to desert. — Succession 

 of Streams and Lakes. — Indian Account of the 17ie-lew 

 or Teh-Ion. — Clinton-Colden, Aylme?; and Sussex 

 Lakes. — Discovery of the Thlew-ee-choh. 



A new scene now opened upon us. Instead of 

 the gentle paddling across the level lake, by 

 which we had been enabled to penetrate thus 

 far, we had to toil up the steep and rocky bed 

 of an unknown stream, on our way to the high 

 lands, from which the waters take an opposite 

 course. The labours which had been hitherto 

 so cheerfully undergone were little more than 

 those to which voyageurs are accustomed ; 

 but in what was to come, it was evident that 

 extraordinary efforts and patient perseverance 

 would be required, to overcome the difficulties 

 of our route. We now learned from the Indians 

 that the fall, to which, after my enterprising 

 friend Beverley, the companion of Sir E. Parry 



