150 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN' INSTITUTE. 



He remained at this for the rest of the year, and till April 20th, 

 1808, trading with Kootanie Indians, and, as usual, taking meteorol- 

 ogical and astronomical observations. He also carefully measured the 

 heights of some of the neighboring mountains, from a measured h&ae 

 of 6,920 ft. Mt. Nelson, to the west of the fort, he found to be 7,223 

 ft. above the surface of the lake, which would give it a height of 

 9,900 ft. above the sea; a height 100 ft. lower than that given on Dr. 

 Dawson's map of 1885. On Apx-il 20th, 1808, he set out with canoes 

 towards the south, and the next day reached the portage to the "Flat 

 Bow" or "McGillivray's" (Kootanie) River, which hecallsMcGilliviay's 

 Portage. From here he descended the "Flat Bow" (Kootanie) River 

 in a canoe, making a careful survey with a compass, by latitudes. On 

 April 24th, he passed the mouth of the "Torrent " (.^t Mary's) River, 

 and on the 27th reached the mouth of the "Fine Meadow" (Tobacco) 

 River. <)n May Gth, he reached the Falls and portaged past them, 

 and on the 8th reached a camp of Flatheads Kootanies in Lat. 48** 

 42' 52', Long. 116^. Having induced the.se Indians to promise to 

 trade with him, he again set oft' on tlie 13th, and on the next day 

 reached Flat Bow or Kootanie Lake. From here he returned up the 

 river to the camp of the Flatheads, whence he took horses and trav- 

 elled in a noith-easterly direction up " McDonald's" (Moyie, or Choe- 

 coos, or Grand Quete River; and on May 18th reached McGillivray's 

 (Kootanie) River, which he cro.ssed and following up the Bank of this 

 stream across Skirmish and Lus.sier Rivers, the latter called after one 

 of his men, reached the Fort on June 5th. From here he continued 

 northward down the Columbia to the mouth of Blaeberry River, from 

 which place he crossed the mountains with the furs obtained during 

 the year, reaching the height of land on June 21st, and Kootanie 

 Plain on June 22nd. On this journey they were obliged to kill and 

 eat several of his horses, as he was unable to obtain other provisions. 



At Kootanie Plain he embarked in a canoe and descended the Sas- 

 katchewan, passing Rocky ^lountain House on 24:th; Mu.skako Fort 

 on the 2Gth, four and a-half hours after passing Wolf Br.^ok;and 

 reacliing Foi-t George on June 30th, having passed "Old Island Fort" 

 three hours and a half before. Next day he descended to Fort Ver- 

 milion, to which place the head-quai-ters of the district had been 

 removed from Fort George. This fort is stated by Alexander Henry 

 to have been situated in Lat. 53*^ 51' 7", on the north side of tlie 



