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the downy seeds of a willow. The banks of Deep 

 River, which forms the discharge of Buffalo and 

 Clear Lakes, consist of gravel and sand containing 

 large boulders, principally of trap and primitive 

 rocks. The eminences rise from fifteen to forty 

 feet above the river, and the land-streams have cut 

 ravines into the loose soil, the whole being well 

 covered with the ordinary trees of the country. 

 This low land extends to Primeau Lake on the one 

 side, and Bufi*alo Lake on the other. The beach, 

 especially towards the openings of Cross and Buf- 

 falo Lakes, is strewed with fragments of quartzose 

 sandstone, mixed with some pieces of light-red 

 freestone, and many boulders of earthy green- 

 stone, chlorite-slate, porphyritic greenstone slate, 

 and gneiss. Neither mica-slate nor limestone 

 were observed among them, and no rocks in situ. 

 Many of the bays have sandy beaches. The Deep 

 River has little current, except where it issues 

 from the lakes. 



In ■ the morning a Canada lynx was observed 

 swimming across a strait, where the distance from 

 shore to shore exceeded a mile. We gave chase, 

 and killed it easily. This animal is often seen in the 

 water, and apparently it travels more in the summer 

 than any other beast of prey in this country. We 

 put ashore to sup at seven in the evening, at a point 

 in Buffalo Lake, where we found evidences of the 



