After being so long accustomed to the dreary nakedness of the country above, the change is as grateful to the eye as it is useful in supplying us with fuel.

Four miles from the village is a point of land on the right, where the hills become lower, but are still thickly timbered.

The river is now about two miles wide, the current smooth and gentle, and the effect of the tide has been sensible since leaving the rapid.

Six miles lower is a rock rising from the middle of the river to the height of one hundred feet, and about eighty yards at its base.
We continued six miles further, and halted for the night under a high projecting rock on the left side of the river, opposite the point of a large meadow.
"The mountains, which, from the great shoot to this place, are high, rugged, and thickly covered with timber, chiefly of the pine species, here leave the river on each side; the river becomes two and one-half miles in width; the low grounds are extensive and well supplied with wood.

The Indians whom we left at the portage passed us on their way down the river, and seven others, who were descending in a canoe for the purpose of trading below, camped with us.