In tin- Ar • '■ !!■ gions. 



But aa unforeseen circumstances might compel us to 

 winter on tbe coa t, I i msidered it necessary t i warn 

 him againsl inferring, from our not returning in the 

 following autumn, that we had reached the Blossom. 

 Be was, therefore, directed to keep Fort Franklin 

 complete, as to provision, until the Bpring of 1S: 

 I>r. Richardson was likewise instructed, before he] 

 tlu> fort in 1827, on his return to England, to£ 

 Mr. Dease fully understood my motives for givi 

 these orders, and that he was provided with I 

 means of purchasing the necessary provision from the 



Indians. 



u ; The long reign of the east wind was at len 

 terminated by a fresh N. W. breeze, and the i 

 r. maining on the small lake soon disappeared, undqr 

 the softening effects of this wind. This lake I 

 been frozen eight months, wanting three days. 

 A narrow channel being opened along the western 

 border of Bear Lake, on the 14th Dr. Rich irdson I 

 advantage of it, and went in a small canoe with two 

 men to examine the mountains on the borders of Bear 



Lake River, and to colli f the plants 



thai were now in dower, intending to rej >in the pa 



at Fori Norman. On the same day. in 1821, the I 



mer Expedi Fori Enterprise 1 >r the Be i. 



Thnr.. '|" n ,. equipments of tile boats 1" LUg nOW 



plete, they were launched on the small lake, and tried 



