NORTHERN OCEAN. 
and twenty leagues long from Eaft to Weft, and 
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twenty wide from North to South. The point ——~ 
where we crofled it is faid to be the narroweft. 
Tt is full of iflands; moft of which are clothed 
with fine iall. poplars, birch, and pines, and are 
well flocked with Indian deer. On fome of the 
large iflands we alfo found feveral beaver; but 
‘this muft be underfitood only of fuch iflands as 
had large ponds in them; for not one beaver- 
_houfe was to be feen on the margin of any of 
them. . 
The lake is ftored with great quantities of very 
fine fifh; particularly between the iflands, which 
in fome parts are fo clofe to each other as to form 
very narrow channels, like little rivers, in which 
I found (when angling for fifh) a confiderable 
current fetting to the Kaftward. 
The fifh that are common in this lake, as well 
as in moft of the other lakes in this country, are 
pike, trout, perch, barble, tittameg, and methy ; 
the two lait are names given by the natives to 
" two fpecies of fifh which are found only in this 
‘country. Befides thefe, we alfo caught another 
kind of fith, which is faid by the Northern Indi- 
ans to be peculiar to this lake; at leait none of 
the fame kind have been met with in any other. 
The body of this fifh much refembles a pike in 
| thape; but the fcales, which are very large and 
’ Riff, are of a beautifully bright filver colour: the 
mouth is large, and fituated like that of a pike ; 
_ but when open, much refembles that of a fiurgeon; 
' and 
January. 
