From this place to the Mud Portage, a distance of a mile and three quarters, the boats were pushed on with poles against a very rapid stream.

Here we encamped, having come seven miles during the day on a S.W.course.

We had several snow showers in the course of the day, and the thermometer at bed-time stood at 30 deg..
On the morning of the 18th, the country was clothed in the livery of winter, a heavy fall of snow having taken place during the night.

We embarked at the usual hour, and in the course of the day, crossed the Point of Rocks and Brassa Portages, and dragged the boats through several minor rapids.

In this tedious way we only made good about nine miles.
On Sunday the 19th we hauled the boats up several short rapids, or, as the boatmen term them, expressively enough, _spouts_, and carried them over the Portages of Lower Burntwood and Morgan's Rocks; on the latter of which we encamped, having proceeded, during the whole day only one mile and three quarters.
The upper part of Hill River swells out considerably, and at Morgan's Rocks, where it is three quarters of a mile wide, we were gratified with a more extensive prospect of the country than any we had enjoyed since leaving York Factory.