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"With reference to the Methye Portage I may remark, that,
except the steep hill at its western extremity, the road is
good and tolerably level, and it appeared to us that much
fatigue and suffering might have been spared by using trucks.
Accordingly two were made by our carpenters at Fort Chipewyan,
in 1827, for the return of the Expedition, and they answered extremely well. I
mention this circumstance, in the hope that
some such expedient will be adopted by the Traders for the
relief of their voyagers, who have twice in every year to pass
over this ridge of hills. The annexed accurate drawing, taken by Lieutenant Back, from the highest part of this Portage, gives a beautiful delineation of one of the most picturesque scenes in the northern parts of America." |
