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flamed eyes, and the remedy is said to be an ef- 

 fectual though a painful one. I have never seen it 

 tried. The Cree name of this plant is watcliuske 

 miisu-in, or " that which the musk-rat eats." 



At breakfast-time we crossed the Carp Portage, 

 where there is a shelving cascade over granite rocks. 

 The grey sucking carp (Cafastomus hudsonius) was 

 busy spaAvning in the eddies, and our voyagers 

 killed several with poles. Two miles above the 

 portage there are some steeply rounded sandy 

 knolls clothed with spruce trees, being the second 

 or high bank of the river, which is elevated 

 above all floods of the present epoch. In some 

 places granite rocks show through sand, heaped 

 round their base. The frequent occurrence of 

 accumulations of sand in this granite and gneiss 

 district, near the water-sheds of contiguous river 

 systems, has been already noticed. In the course 

 of the forenoon we passed the Birch lightening- 

 place {Demi-charge du bouleaii), where a slaty 

 sienite or greenstone occurs, the beds being inclined 

 to the east-north-east at an angle of 45° ; and 

 an hour afterwards we crossed the Birch Portage, 

 five hundred and forty paces long. The rocks 

 there are porphyritic granite, portions of which 

 are in thin beds, and are therefore to be entitled 

 gneiss. 



The river has the character peculiar to the district, 



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