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CHAPTER VI. 
On the 6th of October, the house being completed, 
: struck our tents, and removed into it. It was 
rely a log building, fifty feet long, and twenty-four 
de, divided into a hall, three bed-rooms, and a 
tchen. The walls and roof were plastered” with 
ty, the floors laid with planks rudely squared with 
e hatchet, and the windows closed with parchment 
deerskin. The clay, which, from the coldness of 
e weather, required to be tempered before the fire 
th hot water, froze as it was daubed on, and after- 
ids cracked in such a manner as to admit the wind 
m every quarter; yet, compared with the. tents, 
r new habitation appeared comfortable ; and having 
led our capacious clay-built chimney with fagots, 
: spent a cheerful evening before the invigorating 
ize. The change was peculiarly beneficial to Dr. 
chardson, who having, in one of his excursions, 
rautiously laid down on the frozen side of a hill 
en heated with walking, had caught a severe in- 
