was found too strongly adverse to permit embarkation. The Canadians have the not inappropriate term of _degrade_ for this species of detention; we were here foiled, indeed, in our high hopes of pushing ahead, and compelled to wait on the naked sands for many weary hours. While thus detained, the Indians brought in a brown rabbit,[18] a species of lake tortoise, and some pigeons, being their only fruits of success in hunting, except a single grouse, or partridge, which had crowned their efforts since leaving Detroit. It must be borne in mind, however, that there has been very little opportunity for hunting, that we have had abundant supplies, and that our mode of travelling is such as to alarm all game within sound of our track. They have, indeed, brought reports at several points of seeing the footprints of the deer and black bear, but they have not had the leisure to pursue them. [18] This is presumed to be a variety of the American Hare, and may be distinguished by the following characters: Body eighteen inches long; color of the hair grayish-brown on the back, grayish-white beneath. Neck and body rusty and cenerous. Legs pale rust color. Tail short, brown above, white beneath. Hind legs longest, and callous a short distance from the paws up. Ears tipped with black. Covering of the body rusty fur, beneath long coarse hair. Probable weight six pounds. At five o'clock, the wind abated so much as to permit embarkation, and our canoemen hastened forward with the intention of travelling all night, but at eleven o'clock it freshened to such a degree, and at the same time became so intensely dark, that we were compelled to land and encamp. Neither the topography, mineralogy, or any branch of the physical geography of a country can be ascertained without minute examination; and this constitutes, indeed, the object of the investigations, which have been, thus far, so toilsomely pursued against adverse winds since the commencement of the expedition; but they have disclosed facts which reveal the true structure and physical history of this bleak, ungenial coast; this hope serves, every day, to give new impetus to the voyage.