ON THE TRAIL TO PEACE RIVER 85

valled, the lergest bark vanoe made hy the Indlaus, carrying
whout six fone and 3 crew of sixteen paddlers, and which
ascended as Yar as Fort Willan. Thence further progress
wes mada in the much smaller “ North Canoes * to all points
west af Lake Superion, This partlenlar jourmey of nearly
3,200 ailles, made alraost entively by cance, was completed
from York Faetury to Fort Langley, near the mouth of
Fraser River, in sixty-dive days of setual paddling, an average
af aboot fifty wiles a dey, nearly all up stream.

Ohily twa buildings of the old fort remained at the the of
wor vish, beth in a rnnous madition The old Sreplaces
aud the reoly of spruce hark, 4 severing mach use] in the
egunity, were ati sound, and several cellars indleated where
the other bulldinas bad sfoad. The later post is about a gun-
shot to the east of them, and the whole site had certainly been
well chosen, being courpletely sheltered by the immensely
high banks ef the great and deep river, whose bends ‘ shunl-
derad * and seemed te shut in the place east and west, glso
by the “ Crps,” two very high hills forming the hank on each
side of the river, gu called frow theiy fancied resemblance to
a skidlcap. The river here is over four hundred yards in
width, and Hs banks, from the water's edg: to the upper
prairie level, are some six hundred feet or more in height:
but, as the frail Jeads, the aseenit of the great slope is sbont-a,
mile tn length.

A number of townships bad been blocked hare, at one
time, by My. Ogilvie, DES, hut not subdielded, Fort Den-
vegan being situated, if T mistake not, in the sonth-weet:
aorner of Township 56, Range 4, weet of the Sith Meridian.

‘The Roman Catholic Mission east of the fort was found to
be beantifally sheltered, and neighboured by fine fields of
wheai and a garden Inf} af green peas and new prtatoes, But
this was on the fat. There was no farming whatever on the
north side, on the upper and beautiful prairies deseribed. A
Mr, Milton had tried, it was said, about ten miles east of
Dunvegen, but did not make a snevess af J