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met Mr. Stuart and his company. Mr. La 

 Roque, accompanied by two of Mr. Stuart's 

 men, set off thence, to come to this place, by 

 the circuitous way of Red Deer River, Lesser 

 Slave Lake, and Dunvegan, from which last 

 place, they were accompanied by my people, 

 who have been, this summer, to the Rainy 

 Lake. By them I have received a number of 

 letters from people in this country, and from my 

 friends in the United States. 



Tuesday \ December 14. On the 1st inst. I set 

 out for M c Leod's Lake ; and I there received 

 several letters from my brothers below, which 

 announce the truly afflicting intelligence, that 

 my beloved son George is no longer to be num- 

 bered among the living ! He was in good health 

 on the second of March last, and a corpse on 

 the eighteenth of the same month. — For some 

 time, I could scarcely credit this intelligence ; 

 though I had no reason to doubt its truth. 

 This dispensation of divine providence is so un- 

 expected, and so afflictive, that at first, I could 

 scarcely bear up under it, with a becoming chris- 

 tian resignation. My tenderest affection was 

 placed upon this darling boy ; and I fondly hop- 

 ed, that he would be the solace of my declining 

 years. But how delusive was this expectation ! 

 How frail and perishing are all earthly objects 



