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| + | Saturday 14th October 1820. Fine morning - wind S.W. at 1/2 past 7. embarked and sailed up the Pond or Lake - went up about 3 miles and the wind increasing was obliged to go a shore on N.E. side and reef our sails - then the wind blowing on that shore, crossed to be more in the lee of the land land 3 miles further up on the S.W. side then up that shore about 5 miles and crossed again to N.E. side near the head where we found 4 Indians camped. The wind then blowing a gale from S.W. we could not cross the head of the Pond to the Inlet or River - arrived here at 1 P.M. and remain the afternoon the wind blowing hard.- | ||
| + | The land on the S.W. side of the Lake nearly the whole length is fine hard wood and appears to be good soil at every place where we landed.- | ||
| + | The land on the N. E. side is more of a mixed growth, but appears to be very good land.- | ||
| + | Cheesuncook is a beautiful Lake fine gravelly shores very few Islands - it is 18 miles from the outlet up to the inlet and the general course is N. 20 W. - a branch of the lower end of the Lake runs 1 1/2 miles Souther West of the outlet - and a branch runs one mile North of the inlet, into which empties a large stream called Kak, wan, ga, moo, took.- | ||
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67. Saturday 14th October 1820. Fine morning - wind S.W. at 1/2 past 7. embarked and sailed up the Pond or Lake - went up about 3 miles and the wind increasing was obliged to go a shore on N.E. side and reef our sails - then the wind blowing on that shore, crossed to be more in the lee of the land land 3 miles further up on the S.W. side then up that shore about 5 miles and crossed again to N.E. side near the head where we found 4 Indians camped. The wind then blowing a gale from S.W. we could not cross the head of the Pond to the Inlet or River - arrived here at 1 P.M. and remain the afternoon the wind blowing hard.-
The land on the S.W. side of the Lake nearly the whole length is fine hard wood and appears to be good soil at every place where we landed.-
The land on the N. E. side is more of a mixed growth, but appears to be very good land.-
Cheesuncook is a beautiful Lake fine gravelly shores very few Islands - it is 18 miles from the outlet up to the inlet and the general course is N. 20 W. - a branch of the lower end of the Lake runs 1 1/2 miles Souther West of the outlet - and a branch runs one mile North of the inlet, into which empties a large stream called Kak, wan, ga, moo, took.-