THE FIRST VOLUME. 



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hoppers. — Character of the Country. — Birds. — Destruction of Forests. — 

 The Big Hill. — Boulders. — Limit of wooded Country. — Belts of Wood. 

 — Great Prairie. — Character of the Country. — Salt Lakes. — The Touch- 

 wood Hills. — Beautiful Country. — Excellent Soil. — The Quill Lakes. — 

 Flowers.— White Cranes.— The Heart Hill.— The Last Mountain.— The 

 Little Touchwood Hills. — Lakes. — Touchwood Hill Fort— Ka-ou-ta-at- 

 tin-ak. — Touchwood Hills Range. — Long Lake. — Devil's Lake. — Garden 

 at the Fort. — White Fish in Long Lake. — Burnt Forest. — Grasshoppers. 

 — Winter Forage for Horses. — White Fish. — Buffalo. — Climate of Touch- 

 wood Hills — Humidity of. — Medicine Man. — "Wampum." — Trail to 

 Fort Ellice. — Marshes. — Little Touchwood Hills. — Character of Country 

 Changes. — Depressions. — Pheasant Mountain. — File Hill. — Character of 

 the Country. — Heavy Dews. — Cut-Arm Creek. — Willow Prairie. — Little 

 Cut- Arm Creek. — Rolling Prairie. — Attractive Country. — Spy Hill. — 

 Boulders. — Aspen Groves increasing. — Sand Hills. — The Assinniboine. 



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CHAP. XX. 



THE QU'APPELLE VALLEY. — PORT PELLY TO THE SETTLEMENTS ON RED 



RIVER. 



The Qu'appelle Valley. — Leading Dimensions. — Character of the Great 

 Plain it intersects. — Elevation above the South Brnch. — Lakes in the 

 Qu'appelle Valley. — Depths of. — Timber on. — Valley flooded.— Effects of 

 a Dam across the South Branch. — Diversion of the Waters of the Saskatche- 

 wan. — Table showing leading Dimensions of the Qu'appelle River, Lakes, 

 and Valley. — The Assinniboine. — The West Bank. — Fort Pelly. — White 

 Sand River. — Manitou Lake. — Little White Mud River. — Leech Lake. — 

 Character of Country. — Crops at Fort Pelly. — Swan River. — Snake 

 Creek. — Fertility of Swan River. — Mr. Dawson's Description. — Thunder 

 Mountain. — Porcupine* and Duck Mountains. — Dividing Ridge between the 

 Swan and Assinniboine Rivers. — Miry Creek. — Riding Moimtain. — Shell 

 River. — River Terraces. — Indian Graves. — Little Saskatchewan. — Cre- 

 taceous Shales on Bird's-tail Creek. — On Rapid River. —Termination of 

 Riding Mountain. — White Mud River. — Ancient Beach. — Beauty of 

 White Mud River.— Rat River,— Prairie Portage.— The Settlements. 426 



CHAP. XXI. 



FROM FORT A LA CORNE, DOWN THE SASKATCHEWAN, TO THE GRAND 

 RAPID AND LAKE WINNIPEG. 



Departure from Fort a la Come. — Object of the Expedition. — Equipment. 

 — " Bull-Boats." — Birch-bark Canoes. — General Direction, Current, and 

 Breadth of the Saskatchewan. — Character of its Valley. — Country 



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