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being obliged to carry every thing on our 

 backs, through the woods to Fort Anne, 

 we could not take a great quantity of pro- 

 visions with us, having feveral other very 

 neceffary things with us ; and we did al- 

 ways eat very heartily. As there was very 

 little water in the river, and feveral trees 

 were fallen acrofs it, which frequently flop- 

 ped the boat, I left the men in the boat, 

 and went along the more with Yiingfiroem* 

 The ground on both fides of the river was 

 fo low, that it mufl be under water in 

 fpring and autumn. The fhores were co- 

 vered with feveral forts of trees, which 

 flood at moderate diftances from each other, 

 and a great deal of grafs grew between 

 them. The trees afforded a fine made, 

 very neceffary and agreeable in this hot fea- 

 fon ; but the pleafure it gave was confi- 

 derably leffened by the numbers of gnats 

 which we met with. The foil was ex- 

 tremely rich. 



As we came lower down the river, the 

 dykes, which the beavers had made in it, 

 produced new difficulties. Thefe labori- 

 ous animals had carried together all forts 

 of boughs and branches, and placed them 

 acrofs the river, putting mud and clay in 

 betwixt them, to flop the water. They 

 had bit off the ends of the branches as 



neatly 





