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and the beginning of summer there are none, but the navigation is very difficult on account of the strength of the current; all along this rapid upon each side, the banks are very high and perpendicular, consisting of broken rocks, and the river washes its banks in many places. There are other rapids farther up, but of little consequence. About a day's march above the rapids, the River presents a fine view to the Traveller, the Rocky Mountain to the North and a fine level country all along to the South, interspersed with small rivers and Islands, neither of which are of any note, excepting one of the former not far distant from the Fort, called Bis-Kag-ha River, or sharp edge river, derived from the flint stone which is pretty common there, and with which the former inhabitants (called the Na-ha-nè, who have abandoned the neighborhood on account of the encroachments of the present possessors) made use of for making knives and axes. The Natives of this Establishment, call themselves Beaver Indians, a name

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