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in places where there was little snow, measured 8 feet thick.

The navigation, only along a shallow shore, opened the 5^th of July for the Company's Canoes. The Ice last Summer after being tossed backwards and forwards by the wind and waves totally disappeared the 1^st of August. I cannot say that the weather varies much in this Climate. Our tempestuous gales of wind do not continue above a day or two at most at a time. We Suffer most from the Strong gales of wind and intense frosts during the Months of January and February; and these gales blow generally from the North Eastward. This Latitude or place is reckoned rather unwholesome, both to the whites and Natives. This proceeds, I imagine, from the principal Subsistence, a small fish about the size of a Herring, very much similar

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