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19772, 
January. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
and though not provided with any teeth, takes a | 
bait as ravenoufly asa pike oratrout. The fizes 
we caught were from two feet long to four feet. _ 
Their flefh, though delicately white, is very foft, _ 
and has fo rank a tafte, that many of the Indians, 
except they are in abfolute want, will not eat it. — 
The northern Indians call this fifh Shees. The | 
trout in this lake are of the largeft fize I ever faw: _ 
fome that were caught by my companions could 
not, I think, be lefs than thirty-five or forty | 
pounds weight. Pike are alfo of an incredible © 
fize in this extenfive water; here they are feldom — 
molefted, and have multitudes of fmaller fith to 
prey upon. If I fay that I have feen fome of | 
thefe fifh that were upwards of forty pounds | 
weight, I am fure I do not exceed the truth. | 
Immediately on our arrival on the South fide 
of the Athapufcow Lake, the fcene was agreeably _ 
altered, from an entire jumble of rocks and hills, 
for fuch is all the land on the North fide, toa ) 
fine level country, in which there was not a hill | 
to be feen, or a ftone to be found: fo that fuch | 
of my companions as had not brafs kettles, load- 
ed their fledges with ftones from fome of the laft | 
iflands, to boil their victuals with in their birchs | 
rind kettles, which will not admit of being expof- | 
ed to the fire. They therefore heat ftones and | 
drop them into the water in the kettle to make 
it boil. | ! 
Buffalo, moofe, and beaver were very plentiful; | 
and we could difcover, in many parts through 
which | 
