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ing of a couple of meals made upon this food. We will 

 therefore merely add, that we have never tasted a more 

 nauseating food ; and that our short experience of it has 

 enabled us to sympathize sincerely in the sufferings which 

 Captain Franklin's parly underwent. 



A heavy rain, which fell in the evening of the 23d, 

 abated the force of the wind, and the next morning we 

 again ventured in our boat ; the waves were high and re- 

 tarded our progress, but our anxiety to proceed impelled 

 us on. We doubled a high promontory called the Otter's- 

 head, from a fancied resemblance between that object and 

 a large block of stone which appears to be formed in the 

 shape of a truncated pyramid, and to be at least ten feet 

 square, and thirty feet high. It forms a distinct land-mark, 

 which, being very elevated, can be seen from a distance. 

 It is considered half way from Fort William to the Sault 

 de St. Marie. In the afternoon we saw a very fine water- 

 fall, at least thirty feet high ; the stream which gives rise 

 to it is considerable, and the fall is close to the lake shore. 

 This was so picturesque that we stopped awhile, to allow 

 Mr. Seymour to take a sketch of it. Proceeding onwards 

 we reached in the evening the western extremity of an 

 island, known by the name of JNIichipicotton island ; oppo- 

 site to this the rock becomes a talcose-slate, directed north 

 and south, and inclined about sixty degrees to the west. 

 On the 25th, our course was in the strait between the 

 island and main land ; this channel is about fifteen miles 

 wide, and the recurrence of the sienitic rock convinced us 

 that the talcose-slate was only a subordinate formation. 

 We entered on that day the deeply indented bay of Mi- 

 chipicotton, which is so wide that voyagers never dare 

 trust themselves across it in open boats, but always coast 

 it. In this case we were particularly anxious to enter it 



