Some considerable streams were likewise observed to gush from the faces of precipices, some twenty or thirty feet from their summits, while on the top no water was to be seen.
Wild berries of all kinds were found in abundance, and wild vegetables, besides many nutritious roots.

Among other fish, splendid salmon were found in the lakes and rivers, and animal life swarmed on hill and in dale.

Woods and valleys, plains and ravines, teemed with it.

On every plain the red-deer grazed in herds by the banks of lake and stream.

Wherever there were clusters of poplar and elder trees and saplings, the beaver was seen nibbling industriously with his sharp teeth, and committing as much havoc in the forest as if he had been armed with the woodman's axe; others sported in the eddies.