We embarked at three A.M.July 2nd and at four P.M.entered the mouth of the Methye River.

The lake is thirty-four miles in length and fourteen in breadth.

It is probably very deep for we saw no islands on this wide expanse except at the borders.

On the south-west side were two forts belonging to the Companies and near them a solitary hill seven or eight hundred feet high.

At eight P.M.we encamped in the Methye River at the confluence of the river Pembina.