Ducks and geese resort hither in immense flocks in the spring and autumn.

These birds were now beginning to go off, owing to its muddy shores having become quite hard through the nightly frosts.

At this place the Aurora Borealis was extremely brilliant in the night, its coruscations darting, at times, over the whole sky, and assuming various prismatic tints, of which the violet and yellow were predominant.
After pulling, on the 14th, seven miles and a quarter on the lake, a violent wind drove us for shelter to a small island, or rather a ridge of rolled stones, thrown up by the frequent storms which agitate this lake.

The weather did not moderate the whole day, and we were obliged to pass the night on this exposed spot.

The delay, however, enabled us to obtain some lunar observations.