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CONTENTS OF 



sions of Valley. — Valley and Prairie Scene. — Camp Scene.— Character of 

 Valley. — Ka-wah-wi-ya-ka-mac, or Round Lake. — Dimensions of. — 

 Stony Basin.— Granite Boulders. — Little Cut- Arm Creek.— The Scissors 

 Creek. — Rock Exposure. ~ Grasshoppers. — Big Cut-Arm Creek. — Di- 

 mensions of Qu'appelle. — Flooding of Valley.— Timber. — Undergrowth. 

 —Birds. — Minks. — Deer. — • Uniformity of Qu'appelle Valley. — Table 

 showing the dimensions of the Qu'appelle Valley and Qu'appelle Lakes. 



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CHAP. XVIII. 



FROM THE ELBOW OF THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE SASKATCHEWAN TO THE 

 NEPOWEWIN MISSION ON THE MAIN SASKATCHEWAN. 



Rocks on the South Branch. — Cretaceous. — Altitude of Exposure. — Cha- 

 racter of. — Selenite. — Fossils. — Concretions. — Mesaskatomia Berry. — 

 Character of River. — Drift. — Rock Exposures. — Fibrous Lignite. — Tree- 

 less Prairie. — Cree Camp. — Mud Flats. — Rock Exposure. — Concretions. 

 — Treeless Banks and Prairie. — Low Country. — Driftwood. — Ripple 

 Marks. — Dimensions of the South Branch. — The Moose Woods. — Water 

 and Ice Marks. — Forest Timber. — Character of River. — Treeless Prairie. 

 — Boulders. — Soundings. — Buffalo. — "The Woods." — Rate of Current. 

 — Boulders, Arrangement of. — Artificial Pavement. — Tiers of Boulders. 

 — Temperature. — Balsam Spruce. — Former Aspen Forest. — Good Country. 

 — Water-marks. — Soundings. — Stratified Mud. — Fall of River. — Cha- 

 racter of River. — Colour and Temperature of North and South Branch. 

 — The North Branch. — Absence of Indians. — Absence of Animal Life. — 

 Grizzly Bear. — Aridity of Country through which the South Branch 

 flows. — Current of North Branch. — Coals Falls. — Boulders. — Trees. — 

 The Grand Forks. — The Main Saskatchewan. — Fort a la Corne. — The 

 Rev. Henry Budd. — The Nepowewin Mission. — Cubic Feet of W^ater in 

 North and South Branch and Main Saskatchewan, or Ki-sis-kah-che-wun. 

 — Opening and Closing of the River ...... 380 



CHAP. XIX. 



FROM THE NEPOWEWIN MISSION ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO FORT ELLICE. 



Sandy Strip on the Saskatchewan. — Banksian Pine. — Indian Idols. — Medi- 

 cine Feasts. — Rev. Henry Budd. — His Journal. — Fine Country. — Long 

 Creek. — Old Forest. — Fires, Extent of. — Extension of the Prairies. — 

 Former Extent of wooded Country. — Effect of Fires. — Long Creek. — 

 Hay Ground. — Moles. — Humidity of Climate. — A Bear. — Source of Long- 

 Creek. — The Birch Hills. — Flowers. — Aspect of Country. — Carrot River. 

 — The Lumpy Hill of the Woods. — Lakes. — The wooded Country. — 

 Former Extent of. — Limits of good Land — Raspberries. — Mosquitoes. — 

 The Height of Land. — Continuation of the Eye-brow Hill Range. — Valley 

 inosculating with the South Branch and Main Saskatchewan. — Grass- 



