. Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's river, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c., performed in the year 1823, ... under the command of Stephen H. Long . e his way out of it. Brown had engaged vo-luntarily in our service, had shown himself active and welldisposed. We therefore regretted his desertion, more how-ever on his account than on our own. After waiting a suitable time for him, we proceeded on-wards with a head wind and a high sea, which retarded ourprogress so much as to induce us to stop in a small cove,which received the name of Sunday harbour. In the even-ing w
. Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's river, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c., performed in the year 1823, ... under the command of Stephen H. Long . e his way out of it. Brown had engaged vo-luntarily in our service, had shown himself active and welldisposed. We therefore regretted his desertion, more how-ever on his account than on our own. After waiting a suitable time for him, we proceeded on-wards with a head wind and a high sea, which retarded ourprogress so much as to induce us to stop in a small cove,which received the name of Sunday harbour. In the even-ing we proceeded some distance, and made our encamp-ment in a small and dangerous bay, where, for want of bet-ter accommodation, we spread our blankets upon a beachcovered with large boulders. On the morning of the 22d we resumed our journey witha high south-easterly wind. We observed, as we advanc-ed, that the country being all sienitic, presented a wilderand more barren appearance than where the trap rocksprevailed; i did not rise to such a height, the shores pro-bably seldom exceeding two hundred feet; but good har-bours became more scarce, owing doubtless to the greater. SOURCE OF ST. PETErs RIVER. 185 resistance which the sienite offers than the trap rocks, tothe destructive action of the waves. The rocks are like-wise less ragged; they are steep and rounded at their sur-face. The divisions which they present are very irregu-lar; we question much wliether the rock be stratified,though in some places it assumes that appearance, especi-ally when seen from a distance; for on approaching, thedivisions are found to be irregular, at least in all placeswhere we had an opportunity of studying them plate 13, Mr. Seymour has given a very correct deline-ation of the appearance of the coast, at a point somewhatwest of the Otters head. From a distance, we had al-most been induced to consider the rock at that place as di-vided by vertical fissures, but on drawing closer, thefeatur
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