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steppe, between the Dirt Hills and the Woody Mountains. By far the 
greater number of the bowlders in all these localities consists of 
Laurentian gneiss, many of them are angular, although the majority 
are pretty well rounded. In each of the above districts, the bowlders 
are sO numerous, over considerable areas, that a man might walk upon 
them in any direction without touching the ground. 
In going from the northwest angle of the Lake of the Woods, toward 
Fort Garry, the road for long distances, runs upon low ridges of lime- 
stone-gravel between swamps, until reaching the drier ground between 
the White Mouth river and Oak Point, and in this interval, bowlders 
and pebbles of light-colored limestone are very common. They are 
also strewn abundantly on the shores around the southwestern part of 
Lake of the Woods. In the northern part of Lake of the Woods, and 
in the region of the Winnipeg and English rivers, limestone fragments 
are extremely rare, so that their sudden appearance, in such abundance, 
to the West and South of the northwest angle, would appear to indi- 
cate the occurrence of this rock 77 sitwin the immediate neighborhood. 
The magnetic bearings of the strize in different parts of the country 
drained by the Winnipeg river, are as follows: 
Around Wesaxino lake, S. 10° to 20°W.; two miles South of 
Sturgeon lake S. 40° W.; southeast shore of Sturgeon lake seven miles 
from southwestern extr2mity S. 20° W., and six and a half miles from 
southwestern extremity, S. 15° W.; North end of Hut lake, S. 25° W.; 
East end Kitchi-Sagi or Big-Inlet lake, S. 15° W.; inlet of Jarvis lake, 
S. 10° W.; Minnietakie Falls, S. 35° W.; island on Minnietaka lake, 
four miles southwest of Abram’s chute, S. 45° W.; Abram’s chute, at 
outlet of Minnietaka lake, S. 25° W.; Pelican falls, S. 45° W.; Stormy 
Point, on North side of Lonely lake, 24 miles from its outlet, S. 60° 
W.; Shanty Narrows on Lonely lake, 15 miles from outlet, West; 
outlet of Lonely lake, 8. 75° W.; island in Maynard’s lake, English- 
river, S. 20° W.; narrows between Tide lake and Ball’s lake, English 
river, S. 70° W.; outlet of Indian lake, English river, 8. 30° W.; inlet 
of Lount’s lake, English river, S. 40° W,; outlet of Lount’s lake, S. 
45° W.; entrance to South arm of Separation lake, English river, S. 
50° W.; Winnipeg river, at entrance to Sandy bay, 8. 45° W.; north- 
west shore of Lake of the Woods, seven miles from Rat Portage, S. 25° 
W.; Manitou Minis, 15 miles southwest of Rat Portage, S. 20° to 30° 
W.; Hone Point, 18 miles southwest of Rat Portage, S. 45° W.; Dead 
Oaks Point, 20 miles southwest of Rat Portage, S. 40° W.; and island 
in Lake of the Woods, 25 miles southeast of entrance to northwest 
angle, S. 25° W. 
