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neatly as if they had been chopped off 

 with a hatchet. The grafs about theie 

 places was trod down by them, and in the 

 neighbourhood of the dykes we fometimes 

 met with paths in the grafs, where the 

 beavers probably carried trees along. We 

 found a row of dykes before us, which 

 flopped us a conliderable while, as we 

 could not get forwards with the boat, till 

 we had cut through them. 



As foon as the river was more open, we 

 got into the boat again, and continued 

 our journey in it. The breadth of the 

 river, however, did not exceed eight or 

 nine yards, and frequently it was not above 

 three or four yards broad, and generally 

 fo (hallow, that our boat got on with dif- 

 ficulty. Sometimes it acquired fuch a Hid- 

 den depth, that we could not reach the 

 ground with flicks of feven feet length. 

 The flream was verv rapid in fome 

 places, and very flow in others. The 

 fhores were low at firft, but afterwards re- 

 markably high and fteep, and now and 

 then a rock projected into the water, which 

 always caufed a great depth in fuch places. 

 The rocks confifted here of a grey quartz, 

 mixed with a grey limeftone, lying in ftra- 

 ta. The water in the river was very clear 

 and tranfparent, and we faw feveral little 



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