going beyond the limits of fact. We contemplated with an admiring gaze this vast slope, which from a distance had the appearance of chalk, and when nearer extends like immense concreted cascade, its undulating surface resembling a body of water suddenly checked or indurated in id course.
he first lake of the Columbia is two miles and a half distant from the river des Arcs-ii-plats, and receives a portion of its waters during the great spring freshet.
are separated by a bottom land. The advantages nature seems to have bestowed on the source of the Columbia will render its geographical position very important at sonic future day. The magic hand of civilized man would transform it into a terrestrial paradise.
The Canadian! Into what part of the desert has he not penetrated? The monarch who rules at the source of the Columbia is an honest emigrant from St. Martin, in the district of Montreal, who has resided for twenty-six years
in this desert. The skins of the rein and moose deer' are the materials of which his portable palace is composed; and to use his own expressions, he embarks on horseback with his wife and seven children, and lands wherever lie pleases. Here no one disputes his right, and Folk and Peel, who are now contending for the possession of his dominions, are as unknown to our carbineer as the two greatest powers of the moon. His sceptre is a beaver trap -his law a carbine - the one on his back, the other on his arm, he reviews his numerous furry subjects, the beaver, otter, muskrat, marten, fox, bear, wolf, the sheep and the white goat of the mountains, the black-tailed roe-buck, as well as its red-tailed relative, the stag, the rein and moose deer; some of which respect his sceptre - others submit to his law. He exacts and receives from them the tribute of flesh and skins. Encircled by so much grandeur, undisturbed proprietor of all the skyward palaces, the strongholds, the very last refuge
10 Fr. caribou et orignal.