1-41) PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



On August 9th he left the " Grand Portage," at the mouth of Pigeon 

 River near Lake Superior, in corapaiay with Mr. McGillis, and des- 

 cended through Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods to Lake Winnipeg, 

 which he reached on September 1st. Crossing this Lake and ascending 

 the Litte Saskatchevvan or Dauphin River, lie reached Lake Manito 

 (Manitoba) on September 10th. He crossed this lake and reached 

 Lake "Winnipegoosis by way of the Meadow Portage. On September 

 17th, being camped near the mouth of the Little Dauphin River, 

 provisions were received from Fort Dauphin, on or near Dauphin 

 Lake. They immediately started northward, and on the 19th, Mr. 

 McGillis left to go up the Red Deer River, while he himself went on, 

 and reached the mouth of " Swan"(Shoal) River. Ascending the Shoal 

 River and passing thi'ough Swan Lake he ascended the Swan River 

 for 4| miles, by the windings of the stream, to Swan River House. 



Setting out from here on horseback in company with Mr. Grant, 

 he ascended to Swan River valley and reached Belleau's House on 

 Snake Creek on the following day. From here he turned south, and 

 passing the H. B. Fort at the elbow of the Assiniboine, descended 

 to Grant's House on the Assiniboine, near the mouth of Little Boggy 

 Creek. Here he remained till Oct. l-lth, when he returned to Bel- 

 leau's House on Snake Creek, in order, if possible, to obtain guides to 

 take him up the Swan River to the Red Deer River, and around to 

 the head waters of the Assiniboine. From this date to November 28th 

 his journal was lost, but he states, " I surveyed the Stone Indian 

 (Assiniboine) River upward, and its sources, and the Red Deer 

 River and its sources, and from thence returned to the house of Mr 

 Cuthbert Grant, at the Brook's, on the Stone Indian River," or as 

 before stated, near the mouth of Little Boggy Creek. He however 

 worked out traverses by latitude and departure which show his course 

 to have been from Belleau's House on the Assiniboine and thence t.i 

 where he arrived on November 4th From here he ti-avelled down 

 the bank of the valley to Grant's House, then to Thorburn's House 

 on Calling River, and on to McDonald's House near the mouth of the 

 Souris River, after which he made a'short traverse of the Assiniboine, 

 above McDonald's House. He also incorporates a survey made by Mr. 

 McGillis from the [Jpper to the Lower Settlement on the Red Deer 

 River, giving at the same time the latitudes and longitudes of all the 

 above jilaces as obtained by observation. 



