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RED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 



CHAP. II. 



THE KAMINISTIQUIA ROUTE. FORT WILLIAM. — LAKE 



SUPERIOR TO THE HEIGHT OF LAND. 



Thunder Bay. — Fort William. — M/Kay's Mountain. — The Mission of the 

 Immaculate Conception. — The Rev. Jean Pierre Chone. — Indian Treaty. 

 — Mass. — Current River. — Garden at Fort William. — Remains of former 

 Industry. — The first Brigade. — Iroquois and Ojibways. — A Dance. — The 

 River. — Scenery of Kakabeka Falls. — Valley of the Kaministiquia. — 

 Little Dog Lake. — The Great Dog Portage. — Little Dog River. — The 

 Great Falls on Little Dog River. — Their Beauty. — Winter Road to Dog 

 Lake. — Summer Road to Dog Lake. — Area of Dog Lake. — Description 

 of.— Dog River. — Character of the Country. — Prairie River. — Upper Dog 

 River. — Prairie Portage. — Viscous Lakes. — Description of Prairie Portage. 

 — Atmospheric Phenomena. — Scarcity of Animal Life. 



Thunder Bay, which receives the waters of the Kaminis- 

 tiquia*, forms a portion of the north-west expansion of 

 Lake Superior. It is the most southerly of three large 

 and deep land-locked bays, which characterize that part 

 of the coast ; and it is situated between the parallels 

 48° 15' and 48° 35' north latitude, and in longitude 

 89°, and 89° 25' west of Greenwich. Its greatest length 

 in a north-easterly direction is 32 miles, and its breadth 

 from Thunder Cape to the mouth of the Kaministiquia, 

 upon which Fort William is situated, about 14 miles. 



The main entrance to the bay is between the imposing 

 headlands of Thunder Cape, 1,350 feet above the lake 

 level, and Pie Island, 5 miles south-west of the Cape, with 



* Spelt Kaministikwoya by Sir Jno. Richardson, " the river that runs 

 far about." 



