NORTHERN OCEAN. 
lifhed by all parties, the Indians as well as myfelf. 
ei 
1771. 
And as the Sun had, in the courfe of the day, ——~ 
dried our clothing, in fpite of the {mall fhowers 
of rain, we felt ourfelves more comfortable than 
we had done fince we left the women. ‘Thie place 
where we lay that night, is not far from Griz- 
zled Bear Hill; which takes its name from the 
numbers of thofe animals that are frequently 
known to refort thither for the purpofe of bring- 
ing forth their young in a cave that is found there. 
The wonderful defcription which the Copper Indi- 
ans gave of this place exciting the curiofity of {e- 
veral of my companions as well as myfelf, we 
went to view it; but on our arrival at it found 
little worth remarking about it, being no more 
than a high lump of earth, of a loamy quality, of 
which kind there are feveral others in the fame 
neighbourhood, all ftanding in the middle of a 
large marfh, which makes them refemble fo many 
iflands in a lake. The fides of thefe hills are 
quite perpendicular; and the height of Grizzled 
Bear Hill, which is the largeft, is about twenty 
feet above the level ground that furrounds it. 
Their fummits are covered with a thick fod of 
mofs and long grafs, which in fome places pro- 
jects over the edge; and as the fides are conftantly 
mouldering away, and wafhing down with every 
fhower of rain during the fhort Summer, they 
muft in time be levelled with the marfh in which 
they are fituated. At prefent thofe iflands, as I 
call them, are excellent places of retreat for the 
birds 
July. 
