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matted with drift-wood, and made for a jutting elevation, 

 called Rocky Point, where the lake trends to the east- 

 ward, and struck off in a northerly direction towards a 

 distant cluster of islands on the south of Simpson's 

 Group, which are mostly granitic, and composed of 

 reddish felspar, quartz, and mica. The more northern 

 of these islands attain a greater elevation, from 200 to 

 1000 feet, resembling the bluff and broken features of 

 those to the westward, near the "Gros-cap" of Mackenzie, 

 but still more like the red granite hills of FortChipewyan 

 and upper part of the Slave River. They are very 

 unlike the low swampy limestone tracts which we had 

 left; and almost totally destitute of the drift-timber piled 

 in such immense quantities about Fort Resolution and 

 the more western shores of the lake. 



" The clear green north-eastern waters here contrast 

 strongly with the turbid yellow streams of the Great 

 Slave Lake, hurrying rapidly towards the Mackenzie 

 Conical isolated hills are in various places separated by 

 narrow passages from the larger islands, whose pic- 

 turesque outlines, rent into vast chasms and fissures, and 

 rising to upwards of 1200 feet, are very imposing. 



" Near to the most northern of this chain of islands, 

 Point Keith projects from the eastern main ; and the 

 channel, between that point and the northern shore of 

 the lake, is interrupted by an island called jEM-thenu- 

 eh *, or Reindeer Island, remarkable for its table-land ; 

 with perpendicular cliffs resting on sloping and irre- 



* This little island is not named in the annexed map. It 

 is immediately on the south of the date " August 14th," and 

 south-west of the prolonged extremity of Peth-the-nu-eh. 

 It is to be observed, that there is a small group in the lake 

 also called " Reindeer Islands," north of the entrance of 

 Slave River, and about north-west of Rocky Point. 



