﻿90 MISSINIPI June, 



No change of formation takes place in passing 

 from the Saskatchewan River system to that of the 

 Missinipi. The Frog Portage is low, and Churchill 

 River, in seasons of flood, sometimes overflows it 

 and discharges some of its superfluous waters into 

 the Woody Lake.* The general level of the country 

 for some distance, or down to the lower end of 

 Half- Moon Lake, varies little ; but in this and 

 in Pelican Lake there are a few conical eminences, 

 which rise several hundred feet above the water. 

 We did not approach - them sufliciently near for 

 examination. 



Frog Portage is the most northerly point of the 

 Saskatchewan basin, and lies in 55° 26' N. latitude, 

 103° 20' W. longitude. Below it there is a remark- 

 able parallelism in the courses of Churchill and 

 Saskatchewan rivers, both streams inclining to the 

 north-east in their passage through the " interme- 

 diate primitive range," the district from whence 

 they receive lateral supplies being at the same time 

 very greatly narrowed. Several other considerable 



River, because on it the early fur traders from Canada encoun- 

 tered the Hudson's Bay Company's people ascending from their 

 principal depot at Fort Churchill. 



* About forty years ago, in a season remembered especially 

 for the land-floods, a gentleman was drowned on the Frog 

 Portage by his canoe oversetting against a tree as he was 

 passing from Churchill River. 



