The rear of the lot has a blacksmith shop.

The interpreter has quarters near by.

The gate of the new cantonment is some three hundred yards west of my door, and there is thus brought within a small compass the means of transacting the affairs of the agency during the approaching and expected severe winter.

These are the best arrangements that can be made, better indeed than I had reason to expect on first landing here.
_3d_.

I wrote to-day to Dr.Hosack, expressing my thanks for the extract of a letter, which he had enclosed me from Sir Humphrey Davy, dated London, March 24th, 1822, in which this eminent philosopher expresses his opinion on my _Narrative Journal_, a copy of which Dr.Hosack had sent him.