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GENERAL SKETCH OF ROUTES FOLLOWED AND WORK ACCOM- 

 PLISHED 1-44 



Mbthod of Travel and Routes followed 1 



Length of tmtk surveys ... 4 



Observation and Collections 5 



Waters of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers 7 



Water supply of the City of Winnipeg 8 



Analyses of waters 9 



Character of waters compared 10 



Possible sources of supply for the City 11 



Hardness of the waters 11 



Gbological and General Description of the Regions Explored 12 



Continuation of Survey of Nelson River 12 



Split Lake to Little Churchill River 14 



Little Churchill River 15 



Churchill River above the " Forks'" l(i 



Churchill River below the " Forks" 17 



Fort Churchill and vicinity 21 



Completion of the Track Survey of the Nelson River 23 



The Limestone Rapids 24 



Limestone Rapids to Split Lake 25 



Grass River 27 



Explorations by Mr A. S. Cochrane 29 



Knee Lake to God's Lake : 29 



God s Lake 29 



Oxford House to Island Lake 30 



Island Lake 31 



Soil and Timber of the District 32 



Gkolocwcal Features of the Region explored by Mr. Cochrane 33 



Dip and Strike of Gneiss 34 



Huronian 36 



Glacial Stri^; 38 



Northern Limits or Forest Trbes 41 



Forest Preservation 44 



