When the instrument was removed from the North-West to the South-East point about twenty yards distant and placed on the meridian the needle ceased to traverse but remained steady at an angle of 60 degrees.

On changing the face of the instrument so as to give a South-East and North-West direction to the needle it hung vertically.

The position of the slaty strata of the magnetic ore is also vertical.

Their direction is extremely irregular, being much contorted.
Knee Lake towards its upper end becomes narrower and its rocky shores are broken into conical and rounded eminences, destitute of soil, and of course devoid of trees.

We slept at the western extremity of the lake, having come during the day nineteen miles and a half on a South-West course.
TROUT RIVER.
We began the ascent of Trout River early in the morning of the 27th and in the course of the day passed three portages and several rapids.