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the 23d of September, 1821. No-name Lake is 

 evidently Providence Lake of Franklin. Hearne 

 crossed Slave Lake by the usual Indian route, 

 through the Reindeer Islands to Stony Point, 

 and the Riviere a Jean, a branch of Slave River; 

 but his map is inaccurate here, and does not 

 agree with his text. The next place, whose 

 position it is very desirable to ascertain, is 

 Thelew-ey-aze-yeth, or Little Fish Hill ; and we 

 may be assisted in doing this by our knowledge 

 of three fixed points, viz. the mouth of Slave 

 River, the edge of the woods to the north- 

 ward, and Churchill Fort. The northern ter- 

 mination of the woods inclines from the east 

 side of Great Bear Lake considerably to the 

 southward, as it runs to the eastward, pass- 

 ing Fort Enterprise in 64£°, Artillery Lake in 

 63|°, and continuing nearly in the same direc- 

 tion until it approaches Hudson's Bay. Hearne 

 makes it 63° 45' in the longitude he assigns to 

 Thelew-ey-aze-yeth, but we shall not probably 

 be far from the truth, if we consider it as in 

 63^°. Now if we reduce the distance of one 

 hundred and fifty miles, at which he places 

 Thelew-ey-aze-yeth south of the barren grounds, 

 to between eighty and ninety miles, and allow 

 27° of variation on his route, we obtain 61° 55' 

 for the latitude of that place, which is forty miles 

 north of the position he assigns to it on his 



