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1771. 
eee eee 
July. 
14th. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
amazing rate till we join the women, by the fide of 
CogeadWhoie.---Much foot-foundered.—T he appear- 
ance very alarming, but foon changes for the better. 
—Proceed to the fouthward, and join the remainder 
of the women and children.—Many other Indians 
arrive with them. 
E had fcarcely arrived at the Copper-mine 
River when four Copper Indians joined 
us, and brought with them two canoes. They 
had feen all the Indians who were fent from us at 
various times, except Matonabbee’s brother and 
three others that were firft difpatched from Con- 
gecathawhachaga. 
On my arrival here 1 was not a little furprifed 
to find the river differ fo much from the defcrip- 
tion which the Indians had given of it at the Fac- 
tory ; for, inftead of being fo large as to be navi- 
gable for fhipping, as it had been reprefented by 
them, it was at that part fcarcely navigable for an 
Indian canoe, being no more than one hundred 
and eighty yards wide, every where full of fhoals, 
and no lefs than three falls were in fight at firft view. 
Near the water’s edge there is fome wood; but 
not one tree grows on or near the top of the hills 
between which the river runs. ‘There appears to 
have been formerly a much greater quantity than 
there is at prefent; but the trees feem to have 
been fet on fire fome years ago, and, in confe- 
quence, there is at prefent ten fticks lying on the 
ground, for one green one which is growing be- 
fide 
