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amongst the rocky islets, with a rapidity that seemed 

 to threaten certain destruction : once, indeed, I fan- 

 cied that I Baw it overwhelmed in the waves. Buch 

 an event would have been fatal to the whole party. 

 Separated as I was from my companions, withom gun, 

 ammunition, hatchet, or the means of making a fire, 

 and in wet clothes, my doom would have been speedily 

 sealed. My companions too, driven to the nee 

 of coasting the lake, must have sunk under the t , 

 of rounding its innumerable arms and bays, which, as 

 we have learned from the [ndians, are very extensive. 

 By the goodness of Providence, hov were 



1 at that time, and Borne of us have been permit- 

 ted to offer up our thanksgivings, in a civilized land, 

 for the signal deliverances we thru and afterwards ex- 

 perienced. 



By this accid* nl 1 had the misfortune to loose my 

 port-folio, containing my journal from Fort Eoterprize, 

 together \\ith all the astronomical and i 

 observations made during the descent of the Copper- 

 Mine River, and along the it, (except tli 

 the dip and variation.) I was in the habit of carry- 

 ing it strapped across my shoulders, but had tjik- n it 

 off on entering the canoe, t«> reduce the upp< r weight. 

 The results of most of the observations for latitude 

 and longitude had been n gistered in the sketch ! 

 so that we preserved the requisites for the construe* 



