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maintain a small office at the same place, but the trading post of 

 that Company is located at the foot of the rapids on the same side 

 of the river. This post is called Grand Rapids. There is a scattered 

 Indian settlement in the neighbourhood, and about two miles from 

 the post, on the south side of the river, there is another, with a 

 Church of England mission. Our illustrations are of the post and 

 landing, at the foot of the rapids. 



The river here is three quarters of a mile wide, with a strong 

 current. There is a good harbour opposite the Company's Post. The 

 river and lake, which it joins here, are well filled with whitefish 

 which the Indians employ themselves in catching, and upon which, for 

 the most part, they subsist. From Grand Rapids across the northern 

 portion of the lake to the head of the Nelson River, the distance is 

 about ninety miles for a steamer ; for a canoe, to coast round the 

 north-western shore, it is nearly two hundred and fifty miles. At 

 Warren's Landing, at the beginning of the Nelson, the Hudson's Bay 

 Company have large warehouses where goods are landed and shipped 

 from and to the posts of that Company. These are located on the 

 west side of the river. Here the country is low, flat and rocky, with 

 considerable timber of spruce, tamarac and birch. From Warren's 

 Landing to Norway House the distance is but twenty-three and a 

 half miles ; but we shall speak of the Nelson River and its outposts 

 anon. 



