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bour. At nine o'clock Mrs. Selby and I 

 set off in the ship's yawl, rowed by the two 

 Indian women, for White-bear River; at five 

 o'clock we arrived at Little Brook and pitched 

 a tent there, afterwards we went to the salmon- 

 post, where I found, they had got about six 

 tierces of fish on shore. I shot a pair of 

 geese. 



[The chief occupation of the summer was the 

 cod-fishery, in which Cartwright was fairly suc- 

 cessful, for which he built a Stage at Cfreat Island 

 near Blackguard Bay. Hardly a day passed, how- 

 ever, when he did not indulge in shooting game 

 or in exploring the country.] 



Wednes., September 3, 1777. After breakfast, 

 taking Jack with me, I went in the Roebuck to 

 Cartwright River; we pitched our tent at the 

 mouth of Alder Brook, and rummaged it for bea- 

 vers, but could not find the house, which my peo- 

 ple saw there this spring. 



Thursday, Septem'ber 4, 1777. iEarly in the 

 morning we went up the brook again, and took 

 a long, fatiguing walk to the top of a high hill, 

 from whence we could command an extensive 

 view of the country. We observed, that it was 

 chiefly marshes with small ponds in them, and 

 very little wood, except by the sides of the river 

 and brooks; there the soil is good, rich sand, and 

 produces plenty of very large timber, and abun- 

 dance of good raspberries,^ both red and white, 

 as ever I ate in my life. There are also large beds 



* Rubua idaeus var. aculeatissimus. 



