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184 ing compelled to relinquih our intended reearches.

We oon arrived at the borders of a large lake, connected with the ea by a channel about 120 feet in breadth. We attempted to ford it, but it was too deep about the middle.

Amongt a great variety of other plants that grew in the neighbouring woods, I oberved everal pecies of a new genus of the pedicularia, very nearly reembling the polygala. Amongt the hrubs which ornamented the grounds near the hore, was a beautiful pecies of enitive plant with imple leaves, the talk of which was bent into the form of the letter S.

We aw a large flock of black wans ailing upon the lake; but they were not within reach of our guns. Some mall ilands were viible towards S.E. near the oppoite hore of the lake. We killed a number of nipes of different kinds while we directed our march towards S.W. in order to arrive at the farthet extremity of the lake. The bottom of the lake is here o even, that throughout a urface of more than fifty toies in length, the water is hardly more than a foot and an half deep. It is covered with a prodigious quantity of hells, many of which are decayed in conequence of the length of time they have lain there. The