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pathy manifested to him by Major Delafield, of the boun- 

 dary line commission, who would have taken him in his 

 canoe, but that at that time his wounds did not admit of 

 his removal. 



Such is the sketch of the life and character of this inte- 

 resting man, as far as we have been able to collect them 

 from personal interviews with him, from the account of 

 Dr. M'Laughlin and others, who had known him for many 

 years, and especially from the perusal of the documents 

 which he had in his possession, and which fully establish 

 him to be the son of the Rev. John Tanner, late of the 

 neighbourhood of Frankfort, in Kentucky. These docu- 

 ments consist of letters from Lord Selkirk, from Mr. Ed- 

 ward Tanner, and from other persons who interested them- 

 selves in his behalf. Tanner had promised to supply us 

 with the particulars of his life and adventures, and with a 

 full account of the manners and habits of the Ottawas and 

 Chippewas, among whom he had resided. His well esta- 

 blished character for candour make it an object of much 

 regret that the state of his wounds prevented him from 

 continuing with us. His language, though broken, was in- 

 telligible ; he had in his intercourse with white men, since 

 1817, acquired enough of the English language to converse 

 in it, though always with much difficulty. 



At Rainy lake fort there is a very fine water fall, sur- 

 passed by two or three only of those on Winnepeek river. 

 The whole of the waters of the lake discharge themselves 

 into the river by these falls, the height of which is about 

 twenty-five feet. The beauty of the spot depends much 

 upon the wildness of the rocky scenery, occasioning a foam- 

 ing or dashing of waves that is very striking. The rock 

 is chiefly sienite, in which we thought we could distinguish 

 a tendency to a stratification directed about north-east, and 



