6 hirty Years 
ndeer. This intelligence inspired our companions 
th fresh energy, and they quickly traversed the next 
rtage, and paddled through the Reindeer Lake ; 
the north side of it we found the canoes of our 
ters, and learned from our guide that the Indians 
ually leave their canoes here, as the water commn- 
sation on their hunting grounds is bad. The Yel- 
v-Knife River has now dwindled into an insignificant 
rulet, and we could not trace it beyond the next 
xe, except asamere brook. The latitude of its 
urce 64° 1' 30" N., longitude 113° 36’ W., and its 
igth is one hundred and fifty-six statute miles, 
1ough this river is of sufficient breadth and depth 
* navigating in canoes, -yet I conceive its course is 
o much interrupted by cascades and rapids for its 
er being used as a channel for the conveyance ot 
erchandize. Whilst the crews were employed in 
aking a portage over the foot of Prospect Hill,’ we 
cended to the top of it, and as it is the highest. 
ound in the neighborhood, its summit, which is 
iout five hundred feet above the water, commands 
. extensive view. 
Akaitcho, who was here with his family, pointed 
it to us the smoke of the distant fires which the 
inters had made. The prospect from the hill is 
‘reeably diversified by an intermixture of hill and 
iley, and the appearance of twelve lakes in different 
