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all out of the perpendicular, and foreboding a fall at 

 no very distant time. 



The one point of view having peculiar interest to 

 the stranger is gained by turning west or south- 

 westward. Far as the eye can see, there is stretched 

 out before you an ocean of grass, whose vast im- 

 mensity grows upon you more and more the longer 

 you gaze upon it. Gallop out alone in the evening 

 for a few miles from the Fort towards the S.W., 

 and the most unimpressionable of mortals will ex- 

 perience a novel sensation. A feeling of indescrib- 

 ably buoyant freedom seems to tingle through every 

 nerve, making the old feel young again. Old age 

 and decrepitude belong to civilisation and the abodes 

 of men. We can even associate it in our mind with 

 mountains, whose rocks themselves appear as monu- 

 ments of preceding centuries ; and the withered and 

 fallen trees in ancient forests seem akin to it : but 

 upon the boundless prairies, with no traces of man in 

 sight, nature looks so fresh and smiling that youth 

 alone is in consonance with it. 



Notwithstanding the badness of the weather on 

 the day that we took possession of Fort Garry, 

 numbers of the loyal inhabitants came in to see 

 their deliverers. All were most anxious that im- 

 mediate vengeance should be taken upon the rebel 

 leaders, and many volunteered to capture Kiel and 

 others of his gang, who were stated to be still within 

 easy reach. The officer commanding the troops had 



