In the Arctic Regions. 



senl after thi m. Be succeeded In wounding one, but 

 nol bo aa to prevenl its running off with the herd, in 

 a direction wide of our course. A couple of ra 

 and a brace of wood partridges were shot in the af 

 noon. There was an agreeable variety of hill and dale in 

 the scenery we passed through to-day ; and sufficient 

 wood for ornament, but not enough to crowd the pic- 

 ture. The valleys were intersected by several small 

 lakes and pools, whose snowy covering was happily 

 contrasted with the dark green of the pine trees which 

 Burrounded them. After ascending a moderately high 

 hill by a winding path through a close wood, we 

 opened Buddenly upon Lake Iroquois, and had a fall 

 view of its picturesque Bhores. We crossed it and i 

 camped. 



Though the sky was cloudless, yet the weather was 

 warm. We had the gratification of finding a beaten 

 track soon after we started on the morning of the L2th, 

 and were thus enabled to walk briskly. "We Cro- 

 at hast twenty hills, and found a small lake or p iol 

 at the foot of each. The destructive ravages <>f lire 



were visible during the greater part of the day. The 

 only wood we saw for miles together consisted of pine 



trees, stript of their branches and hark by this elemenl : 



in other parts poplars al me were growing, which 

 have remarked invariably to succeed the pine after a 

 conflagration. We walked twenty miles to-day, hut 



the direct distance was only sixteen miles. 



