The situation of Jaspers House is beautifully Wild and romantic, on the borders of the Athabasca River which here spreads itself out into a small Lake surrounded by Lofty Mountains. This is a temporary summer post for the convenience of the Columbians in crossing; the Winter Establishment of last Year on the borders of the Smoky River about 80 to 100 miles Northward, but it was this Season determined that it should be removed to Moose or Cranberry Lake situated more in the heart of the Mountain near the height of Land and where we suppose Frazers River takes its source; the object of this is to draw the Freemen further into the Mountain than they have been in the habit of gound, where they are expected to make good hunts as it has been rarely Wrought and thereby the lower parts of Smoky river and the Country they used to occupy towards Lesser Slave Lake will be allowed to recruit, we have it likewise in view to draw the Shewhoppes or natives of the North Branch of Thompsons river to the mountain from the Establishmnent of Kamloops or Thompsons River which they have hitherto frequented as that post on account of the heavy Establishment of people required for the purpose of defence yields little or no profit. [4]