more distressing to the feelings of humanity than a Labradore Savage surrounded by his wife and five or six small children half famished with cold and hunger in a hole dug out of the snow and screened from the inclemency of the weather with the branches of trees and of which all the furniture is a kettle hung over a glimmering fire not for the purpose of cooking victuals but melting snow[.]

For about fifty leagues from the seashore the Country is mountainous when it becomes level and mossy and continues so till within a few leagues of the HBay coast it resumes its former rough elevated appearance[.]

In the Lakes & Rivers which are numerous and extensive are found Trout, whitefish, Doré, Pike, Carp, and Salmon[.] Wherever there are wood and water Beaver and every other animal of the fur kind are met with if not in the greatest number at least cloathed with the richest furs which North America produces[.] Carriboux are seen some years browsing in great herds on the plains & hills[.] The

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