430 ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN EXPEDITION. 



Table showing the length, breadth, mean depth, greatest depth, and distance 

 from the Assinniboine, of the Lakes in the Qu'appelle Valley. 



Name of Lake. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Depth. 



Mean. Gr 



Round Lake, or Ka-wa-wi-ya-ka-mac 

 Crooked Lake, or Ka-wa-wa-ki-ka-mac 

 Fishing Lake, No. 1, or Pa-ki-ta-wi-win 



» No. 2 



„ No. 3 .... . 



n n No - 4 



Long Lake 



m. 



4 

 6 

 6 

 3 

 4 



ch. 

 56 

 10 



0 



25 

 30 

 50 



Buffalo Pound-hill Lake 

 Sandhill Lake . . . 



Total length of the Lakes 



16 0 

 4 50 



53 61 



Chains. 



60 



60 



40 



40 



60 



60 

 60 as far 

 as seen. 



40 



45 



Feet. 

 28 

 31 

 52 

 32 

 41 

 37 



Feet 

 30 

 42 

 66 

 48 

 57 

 54 



Note. — The breadths and depths are the means of several measurements. 

 The distances are taken along the centre of the valley. 



FOKT PELLY TO RED EIVEE. 



We spent two days in the valley of the Assinniboine 

 near Fort Ellice, being occupied in making a section of 

 the valley. We found its breadth to be one mile and 

 thirty chains, and its depth 240 feet below the level of 

 the prairie on either hand. The river is 135 feet broad, 

 with a greatest depth of 11*9 feet, a mean depth of eight 

 feet, and a current flowing at the rate of one mile and three- 

 quarters per hour. 



After drifting down the Qu'appelle from the Mission in 

 canoe, Mr. Dickinson crossed the country to Fort Pelly, 

 passing for the first fifteen miles through a very sterile 

 region, the soil being a fight sandy clay, and in many 

 places consisting of pure sand, covered principally with a 

 low growing creeper, bearing berries like the juniper ; the 

 grass is very short and scanty, and the aspens, which are 

 the only trees, are very small. North of Wolverine 



