SUITABLE TENT. 



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For though at most of the rivers, when you have arrived at 

 your anchorage, you will be enabled to launch your cots 

 and convey yourself and household goods to the desired 

 point for fishing, yet in others, and good ones too, such as 

 the Groodbout and Moisic, there are rough paths to be 

 trod, and perpendicular hills to be scaled, over which 

 everything must be conveyed on the shoulders of men : 

 and in others, again, there are portages, over which even 

 your cots must be carried, and then, from the ship to them, 

 every article which is necessary to render your camp com- 

 fortable and your success complete. 



The description of tent which I have found to answer all 

 purposes of shelter and portability, is made of American 

 twilled cotton'; its shape will be better understood by the 

 accompanying sketch than by whole pages of description. 



It is supported on three poles, which may be cut any- 

 where in Canada, fixed in the ground thus. (See next page.) 

 It should be eight feet long, and seven feet high, and 



