Tamaric, Cedar, White and Red Pine, the fruit trees are Raspberries, strawberries[,] a Kind of small tree which bears wild Pears and a shrub that produces the blue berry and & the Red Prune tree[.]

[T]he Animals that haunt these forest are the moose or Elk, Rein deer or caribou[,] wolf[,] wolverine, Fisher[,] lynx[,] Marten[,] Bear, Fox and Hare those of the Amphibious Kind are the Beaver[,] Muskrat, Otter and Mink.

The Birds to be met at all seasons are the Raven[,] Owl[,] Magpye, Patridge and Pheasant. [T]he birds of passage are the Eagle, crow, Bustard, several species of Ducks, loon[,] white and Grey Goose and Water Hen[.]

The climate is not colder than about Quebec and perhaps not so cold, on the 16^th April we saw Bustards the 22^nd all the snow was off the Groun[d] the 4^th May all the Ice brok up in Vermilion Lake, which is about ten leagues in length and four in breadth and from fifteen to ten fathoms deep moreover this is thought a late spring last Year the Ice broke up the 25^th April, and this Year on the 24^th of the same month we saw wild pigeons and it must likewise be observed that in canada the lakes are much smaller while the Rivers are smaller than here and the Ice is rather carri'd away by the force of the current then melt[']d by the Heat of the sun while here it is the reverse there is no sudden

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