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Rh >793- June. rivulet ; but notwithftanding every means was ufed to invite them, they would not venture nearer us than their companions had done before. I left fome iron, knives, and trinkets near our fire, whither I had little doubt their curiosity would soon be directed.

From hence we proceeded about 9 miles up the arm, dill extending to the north-eaft, and preferving the fame width. We paffed a fmall ifland lying near the w^eflern fliore; here we took up our abode for the night, and the next morning again proceeded. The water was nearly Monday 3. frefti at low tide, but was not of a very light colour. Having gone about a league we arrived at a point on the weftern (hore, from whence the arm took a direction n. n.w. for about 3 leagues, and then, as was moft commonly the cafe, it terminated in low marlhy land. On a fmall fpot of low projecting land from the eaftern flrore, three or four natives were obfcrved, who would not venture near us ; and at a little diftance from the fhore, the trees appeared to have been cleared away for fome extent, and a fquare, fpacious platform was erefted, lying horizontally, and fupported by feveral upright fpars of confiderable thicknefs, and appa- rently not lefs than twenty-five or thirty feet high from the ground. A fire was burning on it at one end, but there was no appearance of any thing like a houfe, though we concluded that fuch was the ufe to which it was appropriated. After breakfad we returned by the fame route we had arrived, and flopped at the point above mentioned to obferve its latitude, which I found to be 52° 43-^', and its longitude 232° ij^'. To this point I gave the name of Point Rap hoe, and to the canal we had thus ex- plored. Dean's Canal. Quitting this point, we dined on our return at the fame brook where we had flopped the preceding day ; the In- dians had taken the trinkets we had left for them, and although they were heard in the woods they did not make their appearance. From thence we proceeded towards the next unexplored inlet, until near dark, when we halted again for the night, and on the following morning Tucdlay 4, reached its entrance about half a mile wide, lying in a n. 50 w. direc- tion. The weather was rough, chilly, and unpleafant, attended with much rain until near noon. At this time we had reached within a mile of the head of the arm, where the obferved latitude was 52" 32', longitude