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small lake or pool at the foot of each. 

 The destructive ravages of fire were visible 

 during the greater par4; of the day. The 

 only wood we saw for miles together 

 consisted of pine-trees stript of their 

 branches and bark by this element , in other 

 parts poplars alone were growing, which 

 we have remarked invariably to succeed 

 the pine after a conflagration. We walked 

 twenty miles to day, but the direct distance 

 was only sixteen. 



The remains of an Indian hut were found 

 in a deep glen, and close to it was placed a 

 pile of wood, which our companions sup- 

 posed to cover a deposit of provision. Our 

 Canadian voyagers, induced by their in- 

 satiable desire of procuring food, proceeded 

 to remove the upper pieces, and examine 

 its contents; when, to their surprise, they 

 found the body of a female, clothed in lea- 

 ther, which appeared to have been recently 

 placed there. Her former garments, the 

 materials for making a fire, a fishing-line, a 

 hatchet, and a bark dish, were laid beside 

 the corpse. The wood was carefully re- 



