There are now but few families of these men who formerly by their numbers and predatory habits spread terror among the natives of this part of the country.
There are springs of bituminous matter on several of the islands near these houses; and the stones on the riverbank are much impregnated with this useful substance.

There is also another place remarkable for the production of a sulphureous salt which is deposited on the surface of a round-backed hill about half a mile from the beach and on the marshy ground underneath it.

We visited these places at a subsequent period of the journey and descriptions of them will appear in Dr.Richardson's Mineralogical Notices.
The latitude of the North-West Company's House is 57 degrees 24 minutes 06 seconds North, but this was the only observation we could obtain, the atmosphere being cloudy.

Mr.Stuart had an excellent thermometer which indicated the lowest state of temperature to be 43 degrees below zero.

He told me 45 degrees was the lowest temperature he had ever witnessed at the Athabasca or Great Slave Lake after many years' residence.