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deep, as is frequently the case in the winter, few 

 beavers can be taken, nor can many fish be caught, 

 in this cold season of the year. Yet after all the 

 difficulties which these people encounter, in pro- 

 curing a subsistence, such is their attachment to 

 the country that gave them birth, that they 

 would not willingly exchange it, for any other part 

 of the world. 



Wednesday, 17. Stuarfs Lake. This lake is 

 called by the Natives Nuck-aws-lay, and the es- 

 tablishment on it, where we now are, is situated 

 in 54° 30' North Latitude, and in 125° West Longi- 

 tude. On the third instant, I left Mr. Stuart at 

 M c Leod's Lake, where he designs to pass the 

 winter; and, accompanied by thirteen labouring 

 men, I arrived at this place, this afternoon. In 

 coming here, I passed over an uneven country, 

 which is in general thickly covered with timber. 

 We saw, on our way, several lakes or ponds, one 

 of which was about six miles long. 



This fort stands in a very pleasant place, on a 

 rise of ground, at the east end of Stuart's Lake, 

 which I am informed, is at least three hundred 

 miles in circumference. At the distance of about 

 two hundred rods from the fort, a considerable river 

 uns out of the lake, where the Natives, who call 

 themselves Taeullies, have a village or rather a 

 few small huts, built of wood. At these they re- 



