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the evening the soldiers caught a great many fish of the 

 genus Hyodon, called there Dore. 



Along the bank there is an abundance of bushes, bearing 

 a small wild cherry ; the Pembina, and several other ber- 

 ries, some of which are very pleasant to the taste. 



Two observations for latitude were taken on the river; 

 one about one mile below the mouth of the Wasiishkwatape, 

 or Muskrat river, at noon on the 12th of August, gave for 

 result, 49° 35' 55" north. The other made at the same 

 hour on the 13th, and within three miles of the confluence 

 of the Assiniboin with Red river, gave 49° 51' 3". 



The first house of the lower settlement is situated about 

 twenty miles by water above the fort, but the country is 

 thickly settled only within three miles of the mouth of the 

 Assiniboin. At the lower settlement there are two forts, 

 one called Fort Gerry belonging to the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany ; the other, called Fort Douglas, is the property of the 

 colony ; there are also two houses of worship, one of them of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church, erected and supported at 

 the expense of the London Bible Society, who likewise sup- 

 ply the funds for a free school. The clergyman, who at- 

 tended both to the church and school, had left there a short 

 time before our arrival, on a visit to England. The other 

 church is the cathedral of a Roman Catholic Bishop establish- 

 ed there. His diocese extends north of the United States' 

 boundary line, from the Rocky Mountains to Upper Cana- 

 da. He is styled Bishop, (in partibus,) of Julianopolig. 

 A Catholic school, instituted at this place by the Missiona- 

 ries, and conducted upon the same plan as Mr. M'Coy's on 

 the St. Joseph, appears to have been attended with the same 

 success. The whole of the expenses of this Catholic eccle- 

 siastical establishment is, we believe, defrayed by the 

 Bishop of Quebec. 



