CONTENTS. 



APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



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General View. Rocky Mountains. Their Length. Their 

 Height. Glaciers. Parallelism to the Pacific Coast. 

 Continental Slopes. Russian America. Eastern Slope. 

 Prairies. Mississippi Valley. Its Slope. Fundamental 

 Rocks of the Basin. Silurian Strata. Carboniferous 

 Series. Tertiary Beds. Lignite Formations. Series 

 of Lake Basins. Transverse Valleys. Intermediate Belt 

 of primitive, hypogenous, or metamorphic Rocks. Its 

 Rivers mere Chains of Lakes. Its Breadth. Altitude. 

 Sources of three great River Systems. Great Fish River. 

 The Yukon or Ivwichpack. Basins of Excavation. 

 Glacial Action. Active Volcanoes - - - 161 



Valley of the St. Lawrence. Altitudes of the Lakes 

 above the Sea. Lake Superior. Lake Michigan. Lake 

 Huron. Lake Erie. Lake Ontario. Lake Chaplain. 

 Northern Brim of the St. Lawrence Basin. Its geological 

 Structure. North Shore of Lake Superior. Structure 

 of the Country at the Sources of the Mississippi - 177 



Winipeg or Saskatchewan Valley. Height of Lake 

 Winipeg. Sea River. Katchewan River. Thousand 

 Lakes. Portages. River Winipeg. Red River. Sas- 

 katchewan River - - - - - 193 



MissmiPi Valley. Its Lakes. Frog Portage - - 1 98 



Mackenzie Rtver Valley. Methy Portage. Athabasca, 

 Elk, or Red-deer River. Lesser Slave Lake. Peace 



