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goods, which the enterprising owner said he had built 

 and furnished for the benefit of the Eed Eiver people ; 

 he thinks he will be able to drive a very profitable trade 

 with them. Our road now lay through pine woods and 

 bad swamps, which continue for eight miles, until within 

 twenty-five miles of Crow Wing. The communication 

 through these swamps is wretched, but there is every 

 prospect of the State constructing a new road next 

 year.* Beached Crow Wing at sunset, Saturday, the 

 24th October, having been sixteen days out from Fort 

 Garry. 



The subjoined table of distances affords a close approxi- 

 mation to each day's journey: — 



TABLE OF ESTIMATED DISTANCES BETWEEN CAMPS. 



Fort Garry .... 



0 



Marsh River 





242 



Stinking River 



n 



Wild Rice River . 





247 



Scratching River . 





Spur of dividing ridge 





270 



Plum River .... 



51 



Buffalo Creek 





279 



Pembina .... 



70 



Forty-fourth Lake 





310 



First of the Two Rivers to 





Little Red River . 





320 



the upper crossing 



95 



109th milestone from 



Fort 





Little Bridge Creek 



104 



Ripley 





329 



Middle River 



110 



Rush Lake . 





338 



Second of the Two Rivers . 



114 



Seventy-seventh-mile Lake . 



361 



Pine or Tamarac River 



136 



Seven miles east of 



Leaf 





Rock River .... 



142 



River, 62£ miles from 



Crow 





Serpent or Snake River 



147 



Wing 





376 



Middle of Prairie . 



160 



Twenty-four miles from 



Crow 





Red Lake River . 



186 



Wing- 





403 



Turtle Brook 



212 



Crow Wing . 





428 



Sand Hill River . 



216 



St. Paul 





558 



Crow Wing is a small, new town, depending chiefly 

 upon the pineries in its neighbourhood for support, as 



* A new road has been completed, and all the rivers bridged as far as 

 Graham's Point on Red River, opposite Fort Abercrombie. (1859.) 



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