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tember we came to Fort William, and on the 25th to 

 Saut Ste. Marie. From thence we went in a steam- 

 vessel to the lower end of Lake Huron, and taking 

 a stage coach there for Orillia, crossed Lake Sim- 

 coe in a steamboat. Then we travelled by coach 

 through Young Street to Toronto, a distance of 

 about forty miles, and there embarked in one of 

 the steam-packets that ply daily between that port 

 and Montreal. 



After a few days passed at La Chine with Sir 

 George Simpson in revising the outstanding ac- 

 counts between the Company and the Expedition, 

 I went to Boston, and embarking in the British 

 mail steam-packet, crossed the Atlantic, and landed 

 at Liverpool on the 6th of November, 1849, after 

 an absence of nineteen months, twelve of them 

 passed in incessant travelling. 



Without delay I presented myself at the Ad- 

 miralty, and, having laid before their Lordships a 

 narrative of my proceedings, had the honour soon 

 afterwards to receive a letter announcing their 

 approbation of my conduct. 



Here the journal of the transactions of the ex- 

 pedition ends, but a summary of the present con- 

 dition of the search may not be unacceptable to 

 the many who take an interest in the fate of our 

 absent countrymen. 



Sir James C. Ross, with the " Enterprise " and 



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