NORTHERN OCEAN, 
and Jength that a deer cannot drag it far before 
79 
77%, 
it gets entangled among the other woods, which ~~~) 
are all left ftanding except what is found necefla. 
ry for making the fence, hedges, &c. 
The pound being thus prepared, a row of {mall 
brufhwood is ftuck up in the fnow on each fide 
the door or entrance; and thefe hedge-rows are 
continued along the open part of the lake, river, 
or plain, where neither ftick nor ftump befides is 
to be feen, which makes them the more diftin@ly 
obferved. ‘Thefe poles, or brufh-wood, are gene- 
rally placed at the diftance of fifteen or twenty 
yards from each other, and ranged in fuch a man- 
ner as to form two fides of a long acute angle, 
growing gradually wider in proportion to the di- 
fiance they extend from the entrance of the 
pound, which fometimes is not lefs than two or 
three miles; while the deer’s path is exactly along 
the middle, between the two rows of brufh-wood. 
Indians employed on this fervice always pitch 
their tent on or near to an eminence that affords 
acommanding profpect of the path leading to 
the pound ; and when they fee any deer going 
that way, men, women, and children walk along 
the lake or river-fide under cover of the woods, 
till they get behind them, then ftep forth to open 
view, and proceed towards the pound in the form 
of a crefeent. The poor timorous deer finding 
themfelves purfued, and at the fame time taking 
the two rows of brufhy poles to be two ranks of 
people ftationed to prevent their pafling on either 
fide, 
March. 
