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grass and willow flats with hills behind timbered with large poplar, spruce, 

 jack pine, balsam, etc. 



From Lac Seul to Camping Lake the English River flows through a clay 

 country. The immediate shore in many cases is low, particularly around the 

 many small tributaries which flow into it, but generally speaking rises con- 

 siderably a short distance back. There are some rock exposures but not many, 

 and they are mostly covered with a heavy mantle of clay. The most prominent 

 rock exposures are at Upper and Lower Ear Falls. The prevailing timber 

 along this stretch of river is large poplar with much spruce and balsam through- 

 out. For a couple of miles above Camping Lake the banks are flat and covered 

 with grass and willows for some distance back. 



About two miles above Camping Lake a large stream called the Mattawa 

 River enters from the northwest. At the junction of the English and Mattawa 

 Rivers, the Hudson's Bay Company formerly had a trading post which has 

 been abandoned for some years and the buildings have entirely disappeared. 



The Mattawa River flows from Shallow Lake which is situated about 

 four miles up stream from the junction. The Mattawa River widens out in 

 places into small lake expansions and the banks generally speaking are of clay, 

 the general characteristics as regards both land and timber being similar to 

 the portion of the English River above described. 



Shallow Lake is about ten miles long and four wide with a long narrow 

 bay reaching off to the west from the southwest corner of the lake for about 

 four miles. The main axis of the lake is almost due north and south. The 

 shores on the west side are for most part high and rocky, and in many places 

 well timbered with spruce, jack pine, poplar, balsam, birch, etc. There is, 

 however, quite an extensive area of burnt country on the west side about two 

 to four miles north of the outlet. The east side is much lower and flatter than 

 the west side and there are more shallow and muddy bays with gently sloping 

 clay shores. Generally speaking this side of the lake is well timbered with 

 poplar, spruce, balsam, etc. 



At the north end of Shallow Lake, Red Lake River enters. This river 

 drains a fairly extensive system of lakes of which Red Lake is the largest. The 

 Hudson's Bay Company have an outpost on Red Lake and it is in that vicinity 

 that silver was reported to have been discovered recently, and where considerable 

 prospecting is now being done. The survey was carried up Red Lake River 

 as far as the first falls, which occurs only a short distance from the mouth of 

 the river, where a spruce post marked "P. No. 40" was planted in a mound of 

 stones on the west side of the river. The river here drops eight feet over a 

 ledge of rock, but it is reported that in years of exceptionally high water this 

 fall is flooded out. 



At the northeast corner of Shallow Lake, there is a shallow bay full of 

 weeds into which empties a wide, sluggish stream which flows from Little 

 Shallow Lake about four miles distant. This stream flows in a long, sweeping 

 bends through a clay country and the shores are low with grass and willow 

 flats extending back to timber which consists mostly of poplar with spruce 

 scattered throughout. 



This river leaves the northwest corner of Little Shallow Lake which is over 

 six miles long and nearly four miles wide at the widest place. The west side 

 of Little Shallow Lake lies roughly parallel to the east side of Shallow Lake 

 and much of the country between the two lakes does not appear to rise to a 

 great elevation. 



On the west side of Little Shallow Lake there is a series of iron-bearing 



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