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through which it flows, is intersected by ridgea of 

 rock which cross the channel, and require the boal 

 be lifted over them. In the afternoon we pase 

 through a shallow piece of water overgrown with 

 bulrushes, and hence named Hairy Lake ; and in the 

 evening, encamped on the banks of Blackwater-Crei k, 

 by which this lake empties itself into Sea River; 

 having come during the day twenty miles and three- 

 quarfc 

 On the morning of the 5th, we entered Sea River, 

 of the many branches of Nelson River. It is 

 about four hundred yards wide, and its waters are of 

 a muddy white color. After ascending the stream for 

 an hour or two, and passing through Carpeni 

 Lake, which is merely an expansion of the river to 

 about a mile in breadth, we came to the Sea River 

 Portage, where the boat was launched across a Bmooth 

 rock, to avoid a fall of four or five feet. Re-embark- 

 ing at the upper end of the portage, we ran before a 

 fresh gale through the remainder of Sea River, the 

 lower part of Play Greene Lake, and entering Little 

 Jack River, Landed and pitched our tents. Eereth 

 is a sm ill log-hut, the residi ace of a fisherman, who 

 supplies Norway Bouse with trout and Bturge n 

 11,. gave us a Pew of tl . which afforded an 



acceptable Bupper. The length of our voyage this 

 day was thiny-tair miles. 



