NORTHERN OCEAN. 
fummits above the tallef{ woods. About two 
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-1770. 
hundred yards from the tent was a fall, or rapid, Uw 
_ which the {wiftnefs of the current prevents from 
freezing in the coldeft winters. At the bottom 
of this fall, which empties itfelf into the above 
lake, was a fine fheet of open water-near a mile 
in length, and at leaft half a mile in breadth; by 
the margin of which we had our fifhing nets fet, 
‘allin open view from the tent. 
The remaining part of this month pafled on 
without any interruption, or material occurrence, 
to difturb our repofe, worth relating: our fith- 
ing nets provided us with daily food, and the In- 
dians had too much philofophy about them to 
give themfelves much additional trouble; for 
during the whole time not.one of them offered 
to look for a partridge, or any thing elfe which 
-could yield a change of diet. 
-As the time may now be fuppofed to have taih 
heavy on my hands, it may not be improper to 
- inform the reader how I employed it. Inthe firft 
place, Lembraced every favourable opportunity 
of obferving the latitude of the place, the mean of 
which was 58° 46’ ae North; and the longitude 
by account was 5° 57’ Wet, from Prince of 
Wales’s Fort. I then corrected my reckoning 
from my laft obfervation; brought up my jour- 
nal, and filled up my phere: to the place of our 
refidence. I built alfo fome traps, and caught a 
few martins ; and by way of faving my ammuni- 
tion, fet fome fnares for partridges. The former 
; a3 
March. 
