78 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. One of the gentle- 

 men to whom I delivered it immediately on 

 landing, in his agitation let it fall, whereby 

 the minute-hand was broken, but the works 

 were not in the smallest degree injured, 

 and the loss of the hand was afterwards 

 supplied. 



During the night the frost was severe ; 

 and at sunrise, on the 3d, the thermometer 

 stood at 25°. After leaving our encamp- 

 ment at the White Fall, we passed through 

 several small lakes, connected with each 

 other by narrow, deep, grassy streams, and 

 at noon arrived at the Painted Stone. Num- 

 bers of musk-rats frequent these streams; 

 and we observed, in the course of the morn- 

 ing, many of their mud houses rising in a 

 conical form to the height of two or three 

 feet above the grass of the swamps in which 

 they were built. 



The Painted Stone is a low rock, ten or 

 twelve yards across, remarkable for the 

 marshy streams, which arise on each side of 

 it, taking different courses. On the one 

 side, the watery course which we had na- 



