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iiigto fee what an alteration it had made, in the ap- 
pearance cf the country. We had now alternately 
inow and rain, frofts and thaws, as in England 3 the 
grafs began to fpring up very fad; in the bare places, 
and the goofeberry bufhes to put out buds : in fhort, 
vve began to have feme appearance of fpring. 
The latter end of April, the hunters began to 
come home from the partridge tents, in order to pre- 
pare for the fpring goofe feafon, which is always ex- 
pected to begin about that time 3 and is, in truth, 
the harved: to this. part of the world. They not only 
kill, fo as to keep the whole factory in freda geefe 
for near a month, but to fait as many as afterwards 
make no inconfiderable part of the year’s provision. 
There are various forts of the geefe, as the grey- 
goofc, the way-way, the brant, the dunter, and le- 
veral more, which I cannot now recoiled. The 
gander of the dunter kind is, in my opinion, one of 
the moil beautiful feathered birds that I have ever 
feen, their colours being more bright and vivid than 
thofe of the parrot, and far more various. 
Toward the latter end of May, the country be- 
gan to be really agreeable 3 the weather being neither 
too hot, nor fo cold, but that one might walk any 
where without being troubled with any difagreeable 
fenfation ; and the dandelion, having grown pretty 
luxuriant, made mod: excellent fallad to our road: 
geefe. 
On June 16th, the ice of the river broke up, and 
went to fea 3 we now fet our nets, and caught great 
plenty of fine falmon 3 I have known upwards of 
90 catched in one tide. We had bedde, fifhermen 
up the river, who brought us down plenty of pyke, 
mathoy, 
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