NOTES. 99 



is about a mile in width. It is built of wood, is laid on 

 two hundred and fifteen trusties, each consisting of three 

 posts, connected by girths and braces. The posts are 

 sunk to hard gravel, which is generally about thirty feet 

 from the surface. The expense was twenty thousand 

 dollars. 



Note 46— Page 6& 



Here from the shore, low marshes wide expand, 

 Where bare and bleak the little salt-works stand. 



This saline is about eight miles from ihe outlet of the 

 lake. The wells are from fifteen to twenty feet deep, and 

 the water is much stronger than that of the ocean. The 

 proprietor informed me that he made about thirty-fivebush- 

 els daily. 



Note 47— Page Gk 

 The skunk's abhorred effluvia filled the room. 



The reader is not to imagine that this animal formed 

 part of our trapper's game. It is never seen in this par- 

 ticular part of the country ; and the trappers take advan- 

 tage of this circumstance to circumvent their prey. In 

 the lower parts of the state, where this animal is abun- 

 dant, there are people who collect the liquor with which 

 Nature has supplied it for its defence. This is put into 

 small vials, sealed, placed mouth downwards in a pot of 



