NORTHERN OCEAN. 
and after hewing it roughly with their hatchet, 
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carry it to the tent, where in the evenings, or \—2 
in the morning before they fet out, they reduce 
| it with their knives to the fhape and fize which 
| 4g required. 
Provifions being plentiful, and the weather 
fine, we advanced a little each day ; and on the 
nineteenth took up our lodgings by the fide of 
Wholdyeah-chuck’d Whoie, or Large Pike Lake. 
In our way we croffed another {mall lake, where 
we caught fome trout by angling, and killed a 
- few deer and one moote. 
On the twentieth we croffed Large Pike Lake, 
which at that part was not more than feven miles 
wide; but from North North Weft to the South 
South Eaft is much longer. The next day we 
arrived at Bedodid Lake, which in general is not 
more than three miles wide, and in feveral places 
much lefs; but it is upward of forty miles long, 
which gives it the appearance of ariver. It is 
faid by the Indians to be fhut up on all fides, and 
entirely furrounded with high Jand, which pro- 
duces vaft quantity of fir trees, but none of them 
grow to a great height in thofe parts: their 
branches, however, {pread wider than thofe of 
firs of three times their height and thicknefs do 
in Europe; fo that they refemble an apple-tree in 
fhape, more than any fpecies of the pine. They 
feem rich in tar, as the wood of them will burn 
like a candle, and emit as {trong a fmell, and as 
much black fmoke, as the ftaves of an old tar- 
barrel ; 
March. 
19th. 
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