NORTHERN OCEAN, 
the Fort, we Jaid down and got a little fleep. 
The next day proving fine and clear, though ex- 
ceflively fharp, we proceeded on our journey 
early in the morning, and at night lay on the 
South Eaft fide of Seal River. We fhould have 
made a much longer day’s journey, had we not 
been greatly embarrafied at fetting out, by ajum- 
ble of rocks, which we could not avoid without 
going greatly out of our way. Here I muft ob- 
ferve, that we were more than fortunate in not 
attempting to leave the little creek where we had 
fixed our habitation the preceding night, as the 
fpot where we lay was not more than two or 
three miles diftant from this dangerous place ; in 
which, had we fallen in with it in the night, we 
muft unavoidably have been bewildered, if we 
had not all perifhed; as notwithftanding the ad- 
vantage of a clear day, and having ufed every 
poflible precaution, it was with the utmoft diffi- 
culty that we crofled it without broken limbs. 
Indeed it would have been next to an impoflibili- 
ty to have done it in the night. | 
| The twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth proved fine 
clear weather, though exceflively cold; and in the 
afternoon of the latter, we arrived at Prince of 
Wales’s Fort, after having been abfent eight 
months and twenty-two days, on a fruitlefs, or 
at leaft an unfuccefsful journey. 
CHAP. 
59 
1770. 
November. 
23a. 
24th. 
25th, 
