NORTHERN OCEAN, 
| gratification of the public, as thofe who are ne- 
20r 
1771. 
| ceffitated to be travellers are able or willing to Unnru 
|give them. It is true, and I am forry it is fo, 
{that I come under the latter defcription; but 
| hope I have not, or fhall not, in the courfe of this 
Journal, advance any thing that will not fland 
the teft of experiment, and the {kill of the mot 
competent judges. 
After leaving White Stone Lake, we continued 
our courfe in the South Weft quarter, feldom 
walking more than twelve miles a day, and fre- 
quently not half that diftance, 
{mall river belonging to Point Lake, but the wea- 
ther at this time proved fo boifterous, and there 
was fo much rain, fnow, and froft, alternately, 
that we were obliged to wait feveral days before 
we could crofs it in our canoes; and the water 
was too deep, and the current too rapid, to at. 
tempt fording it. During this interruption, 
however, our time was not entirely loft, as deer 
were fo plentiful that the Indians killed numbers 
of them, as well for the fake of their fkins, as 
for their flefh, which was at prefent in excellent 
order, and the fkins in proper feafon for the fun- 
dry ufes for which they are deftined. 
In the afternoon of the feventh, the weather 
became fine and moderate, when we all were 
ferried acrofs the river; and the next morning 
fhaped our courfe to the South Welt, by the fide 
of point Lake. After three days journey, which 
only 
Augutt, 
On the third of September, we arrived at ag. somber. 
3d. 
8th. 
