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and clay, often upwards of fifty feel high. Muoh of the clay shows 

 distinol evidence oi stratification, and the different beds ai 

 highly crumpled and folded. 



Between these banks, the river, varying from one to two hundred 

 yards in breadth, flows with a swift and even current, and is joined by 

 ii Qumber of small Btreamson eitherside, the chief one being th< 

 River, which flows from the eastward and joins the main stream ai the 

 head of tide, Beven miles from the Bea. This tributary descends into 

 the valley by a beautiful fall, over 100 feel high. 



A.bou1 thirty miles ap the river and northwards, the country baa 

 been traversed by frequenl and extensive fires, which have left very 

 little of the original forest, the region being, for the mosl part, covered 

 with Becond-growth timber of aspen-poplar, white birch, banksian 

 pine, and Bpruce, none of which has attained a large Bize. The first 

 fall is formed by two chutes, each being about fifty feet high, with I 



whirl] ■ between them, into which a large number of logs have, from 



time to time, been carried, and before escaping from it- influence, 

 having been so broken and braised as t<> be unfit for commercial pur- 

 main piled up on the shore. Above this fall the river runs 

 X. 30 \Y.. and continues in this direction for ten miles, with a sluggish 

 current. The hills on either side rise to elevations from 800 to 1,000 

 feet above its level, being for the most part bare or covered with small 

 Becond-growth timber. 



ver now flows from the wesl for nine miles, in the lower four 

 of which ii i- very rough, having four chutes of fifteen, ten, ten and 

 twenty feet, respectively, with strong rapids between them, necessi- 

 tating a portage of canoes for that distance. 



From here to Waweashton, distant ten miles, the course is N. 35 W.. 

 with two short portages, passing falls oi twelve and thirty feet. 



At Waweashton a large branch comes in from the eastward; and 

 the main Btream, turning westward, falls in the nexl ten miles fully 

 500 feel from the general plateau into the river valley, and is quite 

 impassable foi that a portage, over a mountain upwards 



of 1,000 feet high, must be made. A week was spenl transporting 

 canoes, provie ver this distance. Beyond this, the river 



turns i" the north, and for sixteen miles widens out into Lake Natua- 

 kiiuin. with a width of from one-half to one and a-half miles; lying 

 very little In-low the general surface of the surrounding country, 

 which is here comparatively flat, and characterized by low hills only, 

 which seldom rise more than 200 feel above the water-level. 



The river next run- from the west for fifteen miles, having become 

 narrow and rapid, with ;i mile and a-half portage ai the end of the 

 course. The hunk- and country arc similar to those on the last course. 



