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November 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
brated by the natives for abounding with plenty | 
of fifh during the Winter; accordingly the Indi- 
ans fet all their nets, which were not a few, and | 
met with fuch fuccefs, that in about ten days the | 
roes only were as much as all the women could | 
haul after them. : a | 
Tittimeg and barble, with a few fmall pike, 
were the only fifh caught at this part; the.roes of | 
which, particularly thofe of the tittimeg, are more _ 
efteemed by the Northern Indians, to take with | 
them on a journey, than the fifh itfelf; for about 
two pounds weight of thefe roes, when well bruif- _ 
ed, will make near four gallons of broth, as thick: | 
as common burgoe; and if properly managed, | 
will be as white as rice, which makes it very | 
pleafing to the eye, and no lefs agreeable to the 
palate. ) | 
The land round this lake-is very hilly, though 
not mountainous, and chiefly confifts of rocks 
and loofe ftones; there muft, however, be a {mall 
portion of foil on the furface, as it isin moft parts) 
well clothed with tall poplars, pines, fir, ane | 
birch; particularly in the vallies, where the po- 
plars, pine, and birch feem to thrive beft; but’ 
the firs were as large, andinas flourifhing a flate, 
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on the very fummit of the hills, as in any other! 
part. 4 
Rabbits were here fo plentiful, particularly. on 
the South and South Eaft fide of the lake, that 
feveral of the Indians caught twenty or thirty in 
a night with fnares; and the wood-partridges 
were 
