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are a number of buildings, one of them (the store-house) 

 is a very large edifice, containing extensive machinery 

 and appliances for pressing and packing furs, and making 

 pemmican. Cumberland has been visited by several cele- 

 brated Arctic explorers. In the garden there is a sun- 

 dial which was brought from England, and erected by 

 Sir John Eichardson, and Sir John Franklin remained here 

 a portion of the winter of 1819, while on his first over- 

 land expedition to the Polar Seas via the McKenzie Eiver. 



Cumberland House, Pine Island Lake. 



The weather was very fine during our short sojourn at 

 Cumberland, and although enjoying the hospitality of the 

 gentleman in charge, I regretted the unavoidable delay as 

 the season was already far advanced. Mr. Anderson very 

 kindly offered me a passage in his boat to Eed Eiver, 

 which of course I could not accept as his route lay along 

 the east side of the lake. 



The gentlemen at the fort appeared astonished that a 

 bark canoe had come such a distance down the south 



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