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wheeled triumphantly through the current, 

 and deposited his heterogeneous cargo 

 safely on the shore. The woods re-echoed 

 with the return of their exiled tenants. An 

 hundred tribes, as gaily dressed as any 

 burnished natives of the south, greeted our 

 eyes in our accustomed walks, and their 

 voices, though unmusical, were the sweetest 

 that ever saluted our ears. 



From the 19 th to the 26 th the snow once 

 more blighted the resuscitating verdure, 

 but a single day was sufficient to remove it. 

 On the 28 th the Saskatchawan swept away 

 the ice which had adhered to its banks, and 

 on the morrow a boat came down from 

 Carlton House with provisions. We re- 

 ceived such accounts of the state of vegeta- 

 tion at that place, that Dr. Richardson 

 determined to visit it, in order to collect 

 botanical specimens, as the period at which 

 the ice was expected to admit of the con- 

 tinuation of our journey was still distant. 

 Accordingly he embarked on the 1st of 

 May. 



In the course of the month the ice gra- 



