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were? very small. It is unclear? and in brine. We moved about 100 yards below in a bad place for Wood to Cook File:Ampersand?]. Provott? and I went to set 2 trapps for Beavers. He first cut 2 sticks dry about 8 illegible 9 feet long. We reached the river by trapsing? through the tangled wood. he pulled off his breeches, and waded about with a pole to find the depth of the water, and having found a fat? spot, he dug away the mud in the shape of a half circle, placed a bag of willow branches at the bottom, and placed the trap Beavers: written in left margin lot? over them. he had 2 small willow sticks in his mouth, he split one end of one, diet it in his Horn of Castorium, or medicine as he calls this stuff? and left out the end of it a good map of the undlear, afterwhich it was placed in front of the jaws of the trap with the shore, he then fastened the chain of the trap solidly