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Indians supposed had been made by some of the Dog- 
ribbed tribe, who occasionally visit this part of the 
country. 
Embarking at seven next morning, we paddled to 
the western extremity of the lake, and there found a 
small river, which flows out of it to the 8.W. To 
avoid a strong rapid at its commencement, we made a 
portage, and then crossed to the north bank of the 
river, where the Indians recommended that the winter 
establishment should be erected, and we soon found 
that the situation they had chosen possessed all the 
advantages we could have desired. The trees were 
numerous, and of a far greater size than we had sup- 
posed them to be yesterday—some of the pines being 
thirty or forty feet high, and two feet in diameter at 
the root. We determined on placing the house on the 
summit of the bank, which commands a beautiful 
prospect of the surrounding country. The view in 
the front is bounded at the distance of three miles, by 
round-backed hills ; to the eastward and westward lie 
the Winter and round-rock Lakes, which are connect- 
ed by the Winter River, whose banks are well clothed 
with pines, and ornamented with a profusion of mos- 
ses, lichens, and shrubs. 
In the afternoon we read divine service, and offered 
our thanksgiving to the Almighty for his goodness in 
having brought us thus far on our journey ; a duty 
