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when birches have a richer, and more lively ap- 

 pearance than spruces or lirs. Nor are the hills 

 either so hii;h or so steep as in most parts of this 

 comitry, and they arc divided by a variety of little 

 brooks and rills, which adds to the beauty of the 

 prospect. 



Fridaij, August 4, 1775. Having tinished the 

 studding of the house, we covered it in, and par- 

 titioned oft' a room for salt; packed six tierces, 

 killed two lunidred and twenty-five salmon, and 

 a trout; ' such a one as neither I nor any of our 

 people had ever seen before; it was of a lead col- 

 our; the flesh was very pale, the skin was like 

 that of a tench, and it had no scales, but marked 

 as if it had plenty of very small ones; the belly 

 was white, and it had two rows of small red-spots, 

 just perceptible, down each of its sides: the In- 

 dian l)oy called it a '^ salt-water trout," and said, 

 the livers to the northward had ])lenty of them. 

 In the evening T killed a loon in the water, at a 

 hiuidred yards distance, with my rifle. I saw the 

 first Ijaked a])])les.2 



Tiiursdd//, August 17, 177.'). In tlic forenoon I 

 went up the river in my kyack, and took two men, 

 the greyhound and a Newfoundland dog in the 

 punt, to hunt for the bear. We got the ])mit in 

 to the lake without nnich difficulty, and found a 

 yearling dog-bear fast by both hind legs, in that 

 trap which cnpfnin Dvkos s;i\v l;is1 night: the 



' Ah thcrr are ho many Hpccics liclrdiirinii to tlic trout fiiniily it is iin- 

 poswiblf to niiriu" this on«' with any ccrtiiinty, hut it is jxisHiblo that Cart- 

 wriRht rofiTH to Salvdinim nqvansn narein. 



' Or " bake-applc," cloudberry, Ruhxia Cluicmaemorua. 



