138 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



In the following Spring, on May 16th, 1794, he left Buckingham 

 House for York Factory, making a survey of the Saskatchewan 

 River on his way down. Besides Manchester House, he mentions 

 two places named Hudson House, which he places respectively 3 and 

 14|^ miles below the lower Crossing Place, the latter being 15 miles 

 above Setting (Stui-geon) River. This would place them respectively 

 in Ranges 3 and 2, west of the 3rd Initial meridian. On the 27th, 

 he passed the mouth of the South Branch, wliich he calls Pekakemew, 

 below which were several houses kept by Canadians, probably belong- 

 ing to the North-West Company, namely : Isaac's House, 9| above 

 Nepoiu House, kept by Messrs. Porter &, McLeod ; and Hungry Hall, 

 by Messi'.s. Ross & Thorburn, 14 miles above the mouth of Sturgeon 

 River. On reaching Cumberland House he did not again return to 

 the Saskatchewan, but followed up and surveyed Sturgeon- Weir and 

 Goose Rivers and Goose and Athpupuskow Lakes, from which he 

 crossed Cranberry Portage into Cranberry Lake, and from this lake 

 he went north-east, down Elbow TUver to Ithenoostosequan Lake, 

 then south, down Grassy River, and then east to Reed Lake. Here 

 he left Mr. Ross and proceeded on his journey by Crooked and File 

 Rivers and Burnt-wood Lake to York Factory, where he arrived on 

 July 5th. 



On July 26th, he started on his return to Reed Lake, where he 

 built a house in Lat. 54° 36' 17", Long. 100° 36' 50". There he 

 remained, as shown by his meteorological journal, till May 28th, 

 1795. 



In the Autumn of 1795, he built a house on the south side of the 

 Duck Portage, in Lat. 55° 40' 36", Long. 102^ 7' 37" ; and his meteoro- 

 logical register shows him to have remained there from September 

 6th to May 23rd, 1796. 



Having gone from here to Fairford House on the Missinippi, one 

 mile below the mouth of Deer River, in Lat. 55° 33' 28'', he left 

 this latter House on June 10th, 1796, and ascended Deer's River to 

 Deer's Lake, thence into Hatchet Lake, and down the Black River 

 to its mouth in Athabasca Lake, which he reached about July 2nd, 

 and returning, he reached Fairford House on July 21st. With regard 

 to the survey made during this journey, he states that the coui'se was- 



