66

apparent the nearer we approach the Sea Coast by Mackenzie's River. There is no great variety of bush or shrub wood. The willow with another kind of shrub of a bushy nature, and which attains from 2 to 3 feet height at most and resembles the Young Hazel are Natives here. There is likewise a third distinguished for seven barks which it possesses and does not come taller than the former. It produces a flower in the month of July, something similar in colour and size to that medical Camomile flower. The cold and inhospitable Climate in the vicinity of this Lake is very unfavourable for fruit. In favourable Seasons we find an abundance of Crow and Whortle berries, the latter of various shape and size. They receive the flower in the beginning of July and come to maturity about the 8^th of September. The Pirago is likewise a Native and very common, with the

[66]