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furnished him with an official letter to Mr. Dixon, in which 

 I instructed that surveyor to supply him with any article he 

 could possibly spare from his own equipment, without im- 

 peding- the service on which he was engaged. 



And now our arrangements being as complete as we could 

 hope to make them, under existing circumstances, we broke 

 up our encampment, at eight a. m., and proceeded in the 

 interesting pursuit of the course of the Peel River. 



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