Few furs are collected.

_Les poissons inconnus_, trout, pike, carp, and white-fish are very plentiful, and on these the residents principally subsist.

Their great supply of fish is procured in the latter part of September and the beginning of October, but there are a few taken daily in the nets during the winter.

The surrounding country consists almost entirely of coarse grained granite, frequently enclosing large masses of reddish felspar.

These rocks form hills which attain an elevation of three hundred or four hundred feet, about a mile behind the house; their surface is generally naked, but in the valleys between them grow a few spruce, aspen, and birch trees, together with a variety of shrubs and berry-bearing plants.
On the afternoon of the 2d of August we commenced our journey, having, in addition to our three canoes, a smaller one to convey the women; we were all in high spirits, being heartily glad that the time had at length arrived when our course was to be directed towards the Copper-Mine River, and through a line of country which had not been previously visited by any European.