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March. 
April. 
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A JOURNEY TO THE 
it in their tents, or even out of doors, for the 
purpofe of cooking their victuals. 
The thaws began now to be very confiderable, 
and the under-woods were fo thick in thefe parts | 
as to render travelling through them very diffi- | 
cult; we therefore took the advantage of walk- 
ing on the ice of the above-mentioned Lake, 
which lay nearly in the direction of our courfe ; 
but after proceeding about twenty-two miles on 
it, the Lake turned more toward the North, on | 
which account we were obliged to leave it, ftrik- | 
ing off to the Eaftward; and after walking four- 
teen miles farther, we arrived at Noo-fhetht 
Whoie, or the Hill-Ifland Lake, fo called froma 
very high ifland which ftands in it. 
From the twenty-eighth to the thirty-firft of 
March, we had fo hard a gale of wind from the 
South, as to render walking on lakes or open 
plains quite impoffible, and the violence with 
which the trees were blown down made walk- | 
ing in the woods fomewhat dangerous ; but | 
though feveral had narrow efcapes, no accident | 
happened. | 
From the middle to the latter end of March, | 
and in the beginning of April, though the thaw 
was not general, yet in the middle of the day it | 
was very confiderable: it commonly froze hard | 
in the nights; and the young men took the ad- | 
vantage of the mornings, when the fnow was — 
hard crufted over, and ran down many moofe; 
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