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natives leave their canoes when striking into the interior. 

 From the " mountain," the opposite peninsula of Gah- 

 hooa-tchel-la, (or Rabbit Point,) has a bold and pic- 

 turesque appearance, being more than 2000 feet high, 

 almost perpendicular, and evidently a continuation of 

 the (trap) formation of Peth-the-nu-eh, from which 

 it is separated on the south and west by an opening 

 leading to Christie's Bay. The shores of the eastern part 

 of the lake, as they approach each other, still retain their 

 distinctive characters : that on the north being round- 

 backed and grey, with a few trees ; but that to the south 

 precipitous, cliffy, and almost barren. The rocks, en- 

 closing the east end of the lake, around the bay on the 

 north of which Fort Reliance was placed, are very like 

 those already passed, but more acclivitous. 



The specimens from Fort Reliance (which are 

 marked " undulating rocks of considerable altitude ") 

 consist of granite, having somewhat the aspect of sienite, 

 but composed of reddish felspar, brown mica in small 

 proportion, and grey quartz. On the beach was found 

 a mass of conglomerate of flint pebbles, cemented by 

 sand and slightly effervescent matter. The pebbles, 

 loose on the shore hereabouts, consist of chalcedony, 

 quartz, flinty slate, a conglomerate of red jasper peb- 

 bles in a siliceous dark grey cement, with fragments of 

 jasper of various hues, inclining to brown. 



The sandy space, where the house, or "Fort," was 

 erected, was about three miles broad, and hemmed in, 

 on the east and west, by two rivers, which ran respectively 

 along the bases of parallel ranges of granitic hills. The 

 sand was comparatively level ; and in the space of half a 

 mile were two more platforms, with embankments rising 

 gradually towards the rocky valleys which led to the 

 barren lands. It seemed as if the water of the Great 



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