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about twelve miles in length by five in breadth, which we 

 skirted on the north side, on account of the ice that still 

 partly covered it. The banks were of sand, low, and but 

 thinly wooded, and the lake shallow near land. Some strata 

 of shale was observed on the Eoss shortly before the 

 lake was reached. On the 7th we had to make severalpor- 

 tages over long necks of land to avoid the ice, and then 

 paddled to the side of the lake opposite the exit of the Eoss, 

 when we made a portage of four miles through a swampy 

 country interspersed with morasses and small sheets of 

 water to the next lake, the river thither being too rapid for 

 our canoe. This lake we found almost entirely covered 

 with .ice, a narrow lane of water only appearing in its 

 centre, which we followed and got safely through, though 

 at great risk, the ice having begun to close on us so that 

 we had to cut our way at one spot with the axe. We then 

 continued along the lake until we reached the Eoss. It was 

 ascended next day to another and larger lake. From a 

 sandy knoll at its entrance, we had a view of a high and 

 rocky mountain of an angular form, at the base of which 

 the Anderson is said to takes it rise. It then lay £T.E. \ 

 E. of us. 



The afternoon of that -day and some portion of next was 

 occupied in proceeding along this lake, when we crossed 

 over and made a portage of five miles to another lake, 

 in the vicinity of which we expected to find some Indians. 

 We therefore halted and made a large fire, which was 

 shortly answered by a volume of smoke rising in the 

 east, in the direction of which JBrulez and I set out, and 

 reached it in an hour and a half, when we found six lodges 

 of Hare Indians under the Chief, " La Eocque." They were 

 employed fishing on the banks of a small river, which 

 empties itself into the Anderson some distance above the 

 Upper Eamparts. All the rivers and lakes in this part of the 

 country abound with white, blue and jack fish, the former 

 of excellent quality. The summer is passed by the greater 

 portion of the Hare Indians in fishing among the rivers and 



