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Harmon's journal. 



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This is the Head Quarters or General Ren- 

 dezvous, for all who trade in this part of the 

 world ; and therefore, every summer, the greater 

 part of the Proprietors and Clerks, who have spent 

 the winter in the Interiour, come here with the 

 furs which they have been able to collect, during 

 the preceding season. This, as I am told, is about 

 the time when they generally arrive ; and some 

 of them are already here.-. The people who come 

 from Montreal with the goods, go no farther 

 than this, excepting a few who take those articles 

 to the Rainy Lake, which are intended for Atha- 

 basca, as that place lies at too great a distance 

 from this, to permit people who reside there to 

 come to this place and return, before the winter 

 commences. Those who bring the goods from 

 Montreal, on their return, take down the furs, &c. 

 from the north. 



Excellent fish, I am informed, are taken here. 

 White fish are sometimes speared, which will 

 weigh twenty two pounds. The water in the 

 lake is uncommonly clear. 



Sunday, 15. The people here pass the sab- 

 bath, much in the same manner as they do, the 

 other days of the week. The labouring people 

 have been employed, during the day, in making and 

 pressing packs of furs, to be sent to Canada. This 

 appears, not as it should be, to me, who have been 

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