138 CLINTON-COLDEN LAKE. 



Twice he went to adjacent heights to discover 

 some object, which might remove his doubts ; 

 and the second time he returned with a light 

 step, and a countenance betokening satisfaction 

 and triumph. With renewed confidence he 

 pointed to a bay from whence we might go to 

 the Thlew-ee-choh, and, on our landing, turned 

 to the interpreter, and showing him the well- 

 beaten tracks of the deer, exclaimed, with a 

 smile, that his old father loved to dwell on the 

 feats he had performed there; " and though," 

 added he, " I was but a child when I accom- 

 panied him, these places look familiar to me." 



The two large lakes by which we had come 

 were only separated by the strait of the Sand- 

 Hill ; and, considering the first as extending 

 from that strait, not to the river, but merely to 

 the first narrow to the south, it will embrace a 

 direct distance of twenty-nine miles, and an es- 

 timated breadth, east and west, of nearly thirty. 

 This I have named Clinton-Colden Lake, as 

 a mark of respect to the memory of those dis- 

 tinguished individuals. 



The second, or northern one, is, according to 

 the concurrent testimony of the Indians, about 

 sixty miles in extent towards the north-west, with 

 a breadth not exceeding thirty, nor less than 

 twenty miles. The eastern shores are broken 

 into bays, deep and indefinable ; the rest was 



