APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



CHAPTER I. 



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 primi- 

 tive, 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 Kwichpack. — Basins 

 of Excavation. — Glacial Action. — Active Volcanoes. 



Valley of the St. Lawrence. — Altitudes of the Lakes above the 

 Sea. — Lake Superior. — Lake Michigan. — Lake Huron. — Lake 

 Erie. — Lake Ontario. — Lake Champlain. — 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. 



Winipeg or Saskatchewan Valley. — Height of Lake Winipeg. — 

 Sea River. — Katchewan River. — Thousand Lakes. — Portages. — 

 River Winipeg. — Red River. — Saskatchewan River. 



Missinipi Valley. — Its Lakes. — Frog Portage. 



Mackenzie River Valley. — Methy Portage. — Athabasca, Elk, or 

 Red-deer River. — Lesser Slave Lake. — Peace River. — Slave 

 River. — River of the Mountains. — Noh'hanne Bute. — Great Bear 

 Lake. 



Yukon Valley. — Yukon or Kwichpack. — Volcanic Chain of Alaska. 



— Coal. — Fossil Bones. 



In drawing up the following Appendix, my object has 

 been to record facts in the light in which they appeared 

 VOL. II. M 



