164. 
1771. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
was now fix o’clock in the morning of the eigh- 
“—--—J_ teenth. _Here the Indians killed a mufk-ox, but 
July. 
the mofs being very wet, we could not makea © 
fire, fo that we were obliged to eat the meat raw, 
which wasintolerable, as it happened to be an old 
beait. 
Before I proceed farther on my return, it may — 
not be improper to give fome account of the river, 
and the country adjacent; its productions, and 
the animals which conftantly inhabit thofe drea- 
ry regions, as well as thofe that only migrate thi- 
ther in Summer, in order to breed and rear their 
young, unmolefted by man. That I may do 
this to better purpofe, it will be neceflary to go 
back to the place where I firft came to the river, 
which was about forty miles from its mouth, 
Befide the ftunted pines already mentioned, 
there are fome tufts of dwarf willows; plenty of 
Wifhacumpuckey, (as the Englith call it, and 
which they ufe as tea); fome jackafheypuck, 
which the natives ufe as tobacco; anda few cran- 
berry and heathberry bufhes; b but not the leat 
appearance of any fruit. | 
- The woods grow gradualiy thinner and fmaller 
as you approach the fea; and the Jaft little tuft 
of pines that I faw is about thirty miles from the 
mouth of the river, fo that we meet with no- 
thing between that fpot and the fea-fide but bar- 
ren hills and marfhes. 
The general courfe of the river is about North 
by Eaft; but in fome places it is very crooked, 
and 
