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rivulet, or channel, previously mentioned, and 

 Lake Aylmer, I ascended a hill, from the top 

 of which I discerned, to my great delight, a 

 rapid, evidently connected with the stream which 

 flowed through the narrow channel from the lake. 

 With a quickened step I proceeded to trace its 

 course, and, in doing so, was further gratified at 

 being obliged to wade through the sedgy waters of 

 springs. Crossing two rivulets, whose lively ripples 

 ran due north into the rapid, the thought occur- 

 red to me, that these feeders might be tributaries 

 to the Thlew-ee-choh ; and, yielding to that pleas- 

 ins: emotion, which discoverers, in the first bound 

 of their transport, may be pardoned for indulg- 

 ing, I threw myself down on the bank, and drank 

 a hearty draught of the limpid water. From a 

 height a mile forward, the line of stream could be 

 distinctly traced into an open space, which, as it 

 contracted, inclined to the north ; and this, with 

 the appearance of two plovers, exactly resembling 

 the noisy plover ( Charadrius vociferus) about 

 Fort Enterprise, convinced me that I stood 

 on part of the continuous height of land which 

 extends hither from the borders of the Copper 

 Mine River. The men not making their appear- 

 ance, I raised a dense smoke, by firing the moss, 

 to apprise them of my situation ; and returned 

 to the tent, passing, on my way, a white wolf, 

 which was sneaking towards a deer. A smoke 



