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CHAP. III. 



PINE ISLAND LAKE. — SILURIAN STRATA STURGEON RIVER. — . 



PROGRESS OF SPRING. — BEAVER LAKE. — ISLE 1 LA CROSSE 



BRIGADE. — RIDGE RIVER. NATIVE SCHOOLMASTER AND HIS 



FAMILY. TWO KINDS OF STURGEON. NATIVE MEDICINES. 



BALD EAGLES. PELICANS. BLACK-BELLIED AND CAYENNE 



TERNS. — CRANES. — FROG PORTAGE. — IHSSINIPI OR CHURCH- 

 ILL RIVER. ITS LAKE-LIKE CHARACTER. POISONOUS PLANTS 



AND NATIVE MEDICINES. ATHABASCA BRIGADE. SAND-FLY 



LAKE. THE COUNTRY CHANGES ITS ASPECT. BULL-DOG FLY. 



ISLE A LA CROSSE LAKE. — ITS ALTITUDE ABOVE THE SEA. 



LENGTH OF THE MISSINIPL — ISLE 1 LA CROSSE FORT. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION DEEP RIVER. CANADA LYNX. 



BUFFALO LAKE. METHY RIVER AND LAKE. MURRAIN AMONG 



THE HORSES. BURBOT OR LA LOCHE. — A MINK. — METHY 



PORTAGE. JOIN MR. BELL AND HIS PARTY. 



We left Cumberland House at 4 A. m., on the 14tli 

 of June, but had not passed above three miles 

 through Pine Island Lake, before we were com- 

 pelled to seek shelter on a small island by a vio- 

 lent thunder storm, bringing with it torrents of 

 rain. The rain moderating after a few hours, we 

 resumed our voyage ; but the high wind continuing 

 and raising the waves, our progress was slow, and 

 the day's voyage did not exceed twenty-two miles. 

 In the part of the lake where we encamped the 

 limestone (silurian*) rises, in successive outcrops, 



* Some fragments of large Orthocerata, and a specimen of 

 Receptaculites neptunii, point to the bird's-eye and Trenton 



