The latitude of its source 64 deg.

1' 30" N., longitude 113 deg.

36' W., and its length is one hundred and fifty-six statute miles.

Though this river is of sufficient breadth and depth for navigating in canoes, yet I conceive its course is too much interrupted by cascades and rapids for its ever being used as a channel for the conveyance of merchandise.
Whilst the crews were employed in making a portage over the foot of Prospect Hill, we ascended to the top of it, and as it is the highest ground in the neighbourhood, its summit, which is about five hundred feet above the water, commands an extensive view.
Akaitcho, who was here with his family, pointed out to us the smoke of the distant fires which the hunters had made.

The prospect is agreeably diversified by an intermixture of hill and valley, and the appearance of twelve lakes in different directions.