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adapted for wheel carriages. er other parts the road would fol- 
low the line proposed for the oad. 
I have not mentioned the siciinesios of two other passes across 
this portion of the mountains, called the ““Crow-nest”’ and “ Flat- 
head Passes,” the former in the British, and the latter in Ameri- 
can territory. 
The Crow-nest Pass, of which I have marked the general di- 
rection on the lan, follows up Crow-nest River, a tributary of 
Belly River, into the mountains, and gains the west side near 
“The Ste eeple s.” By report of the natives it isa very bad road, 
and seldom used. I observed the old — coming in from the 
plains on the left bank of Crow-nest Rive 
The Flathead Pass enters the dckctaiens at the 49th parallel 
of latitude, follows the west shore of Lake Waterton, and gains 
Flathead River, which it follows to the Flathead Mission on 
Clark’s Fork of the Columbia, about 80 miles S. by E. of th 
Kootanie trading post. It is used by the Flathead Indians when 
crossing to the Saskatchawan Plains for the purpose of obtaining 
eat. 
Fort Carlton, Saskatchawan River, December 15, 1858. 
APPENDIX. 
[Extract from the address of Sir R. I. Murchison at the anni- 
versary tapering of the Royal Geographical Society, EPs 23, 
p. 108.] 
1859. 
Palliser Expedition. 
_ British North America.—The ay ors results of the 
tion, one of the main points of interest to geogra =! was a sur- 
Ui ‘of that part of re th of the 
Onization as d dant ai the possibility of ing practicable 
routes of astaamuads ae For example, whether the Canadas 
nt. The more western pear 
Were destined to develop the true nature of the great prairi 
