The ground on which they are erected is sandy, and favourable to cultivation.

Curiosity, however, was satisfied by the first experiment, and utility alone has been unable to extend it.

Isle a la Crosse is frequented by the Crees and the Chipewyans.

It is not the dread of the Indians, but of one another, that has brought the rival Companies so close together at every trading post; each party seeking to prevent the other from engaging the affections of the natives, and monopolizing the trade.

Whenever a settlement is made by the one, the other immediately follows, without considering the eligibility of the place; for it may injure its opponent, though it cannot benefit itself, and that advantage which is the first object of all other commercial bodies, becomes but the second with the fur traders.
On the evening of the 30th we embarked, and entered a wide channel to the northward of the forts, and extending towards the north-west.