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neat pack of about fifty pounds and started off. It did not feel 
heavy at first, and the weather being fine I made fair progress, 
but as the day wore on my pack became burdensome, and by 
evening I was quite ready to lay it down and creep into my 
sleeping bag. This first day’s march, which covered thirteen 
miles, was along the course of the stream, over rough hills of 
eneiss sparingly wooded for a distance of ten miles only from 
the Thelon. Ata point eight miles distant I discovered a beau- 
tiful little fall of 50 feet drop, and it was here that the gneiss 
formation was first noted. Its strike was observed to be north 
75 degrees east (astronomical) and dip 70 degrees east. 
My first day’s march took me to the shore of a small lake, 
which of itself formed no serious obstruction to travel, but may 
be mentioned as the first link of a chain which was to cause 
trouble. The lake is about four miles long, but of very irregu- 
lar shape. Its east shore is conspicuous because of a high ridge 
ef white sand which has a bearing of south 63 degrees east. 
Because of the irregularities of the shore, and the impossibility 
of seeing any great distance ahead, it required a twelve mile 
tramp to get free from this lake, and that represented my 
second day’s journey. © My rations were obtained from the car- 
cass of a deer which I shot, and some biscuits which I had 
brought in my pack. 
On the morning of my third day, only three miles from my 
“camp,” I came upon a large lake—to which I have taken the 
liberty of attaching my own name—since I am sure it has 
never been, and perhaps never will be, of as much interest to 
any one else as it proved to me. 
Ascending the highest convenient hill I examined the lake 
as critically as possible with my fine field glasses. Its general 
bearing lay nearly northeast and southwest. Its southerly 
shores appeared to be only five or six miles distant, but its 
northerly boundary I could not determine, being apparently 
limited only by the blue hazy distant hills. Having no boat or 
timber of any description with which to make a raft, I turned 
my steps towards the south as the seemingly easiest way of get- 
ting past this obstacle, and for three miles or thereabouts I got 
