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rather a brindle color, with a head large in proportion 

 to his body, and a tail some eight or nine inches long. 



It was our intention originally to have traversed 

 the whole line of wilderness, laying between Clinton, 

 and the north of Herkimer counties, but we had dallied 

 long by the way, and concluded to turn back to the 

 foot of the Upper Saranac, and so out by the course 

 of the Saranac river. We returned, therefore, to the 

 foot of Tupper's Lake, and re-embarked. We visited 

 the pigeon roost again on our way, and the evening 

 of the next day found us at the cabin of the half-breed, 

 on the bank of the little lake I have before spoken of. 

 He proffered me the use of his bed again ; but I had 

 had enough of that bed, and preferred one of boughs, 

 in a hastily -constructed shantee, on the lake shore. 



The next morning we passed on to the foot of the 

 Upper Saranac, and re-embarking, paddled up some 

 two or three miles to the outlet ; this we followed, 

 and carrying our canoe a short distance round, or 

 rather down the rapids, entered Eound Lake. This 

 beautiful sheet of water, laying between the Upper and 

 Lower Saranac, is properly named, being nearly round, 

 ai)d some ten or twelve miles in circumference. 



Towards the north-east shore, and half a mile from 



