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meat, but these animals are not numerous 

 on this side of the lake. Few furs are col- 

 lected. Les poissons inconnus, trout, pike, 

 carp, and white-fish, are very plentiful, and 

 on these the residents principally subsist. 

 Their great supply of fish is procured in the 

 latter part of September and the beginning 

 of October, but there are a few taken daily 

 in the nets during the winter. The sur- 

 rounding country consists almost entirely of 

 coarse-grained granite, frequently enclosing 

 large*" "Masses of reddish felspar. These 

 rocks form hills which attain an elevation 

 of three hundred or four hundred feet, about 

 a mile behind the house ; their surface is 

 generally naked, but in the valleys between 

 them grow a few spruce, aspen, and birch 

 trees, together with a variety of shrubs and 

 berry-bearing plants. 



On the afternoon of the 2d of August we 

 i commenced our journey, having, in addition 

 j to our three canoes, a smaller one to convey 

 ! the women; we were all in high spirits, 

 j being heartily glad that the time had at 

 (length arrived when our course was to be 



