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slip from the summit of a rock into the river, betwixt 
‘two of the falls. My attempts to regain the bank 
were, for a time, ineffectual, owing to the rovks within 
my reach having been worn smooth by the action of 
the water, but after I had been carried a considerable 
distance down the stream, I eaught hold of a willow, 
by which I held until two gentlemen of the Hudson’. 
Bay Company came in a boat to my assistance. The 
only bad consequence of this accident was an injury 
sustained by a very valuable chronometer, (No. 1733, 
belonging to Daniel Moore, Esq., of Lincoln’s Inn 
One of the gentlemen, to whom I delivered it imme- 
diately on landing, in his agitation let it fall, whereby 
the minute-hand was broken, but the works were not 
in the smallest degree injured, and the. loss of the 
hand was afterwards supplied. 
During the night the frost was severe, and at sun. 
rise, on the 3d, the thermometer stood at 25°. Aftey 
leaving our. encampment at the White Fall, we 
passed through several small lakes connected with 
each other by narrow, deep, grassy streams, and at 
noon arrived at the Painted Stone. Numbers of 
musk-rats frequent these streams, and we observed, 
in the course of the morning, many of their mud- 
houses rising in a conical form to the height of two 
or three feet above the grass of the swamps in which 
they are built. 
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