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occasionally obtained from the nets. It 

 may be worthy of notice here, that the fish 

 froze as they were taken out of the nets, in 

 a short time became a solid mass of ice, 

 and by a blow or two of the hatchet were 

 easily split open, when the intestines might 

 be removed in one lump. If in this com- 

 pletely frozen state they were thawed before 

 the fire, they recovered their animation. 

 This was particularly the case with the 

 carp, and we had occasion to observe it re- 

 peatedly, as Dr. Richardson occupied him- 

 self in examining the structure of the dif- 

 ferent species of fish, and was, always in 

 the winter, under the necessity of thawing 

 them before he could cut them. We have 

 seen a carp recover so far as to leap about 

 with much vigour, after it had been frozen 

 for thirty-six hours. 



From the 12th to the 16th we had fine, 

 and for the season, warm weather ; and the 

 deer, which had not been seen since the 

 26th of October, reappeared in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the house, to the surprise of 

 the Indians, who attributed their return to 



