346 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
placing the house on the summit of the bank, 
which commands a beautiful prospect of the 
surrounding country. The view in the front is 
bounded at the distance of three miles, by round- 
backed hills ; to the eastward and westward lie 
the Winter and Round-rock Lakes, which are 
connected by the Winter River, whose banks are 
well clothed with pines, and ornamented with a 
profusion of mosses, lichens, and shrubs. 
In the afternoon we read divine service, and | 
offered our thanksgiving to the Almighty for his 
goodness in having brought us thus far on our 
journey ; a duty which we never neglected, when 
stationary on the sabbath. 
The united length of the portages we have 
crossed, since leaving Fort Providence, is twenty- 
one statute miles and a half; and as our men 
had to traverse each portage four times, with a 
load of one hundred and eighty pounds, and 
return three times light, they walked in the whole 
upwards of one hundred and fifty miles. The total 
length of our voyage from Chipewyan is five 
hundred and fifty-three miles *. 
Statute Miles. 
* Stoney and Slave Rivers Ry 
e Lake . ‘ . 107 
_. Yellow-Knife hice 156.5 — 
= Speen country between thie source of the 
— - Yellow-Knife River and Fort Enterprise 29.5 
