The St.
Mary's River is here about three-fourths of a mile wide, and the green in front of my office is covered with Indian lodges, and presents a noble expanse.

I have now a building some thirty-six feet square, built of squared timber, jointed with mortar and whitewashed, so as to give it a neat appearance.

The interior is divided into a room some twenty feet by thirty-six, with two small ante-rooms.

A large cast iron Montreal stove, which will take in three feet wood, occupies the centre.

The walls are plastered, and the room moderately lighted.