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its mouth, and no anchorage is found for some miles up, the banks being precipitous at the mouth it is said 250 fathoms of line cannot find bottom. The almost monopoly of the country north of the St Laurence E of Quebec by the hunters and Indians in pay of the Company prevents these hunting grounds being sought by White hunters — a collission with the above worthies some hundreds of miles from civilization partaking rather too much of a “to wall with the weak” system to please the more peaceably inclined amateur hunter. Indians are extremely jealous of their country being encroached upon, and there might be some little danger in attempting an excursion of the kind, at least to word considerable distance without the escort of an Indian or hunter of the Company.