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undulations occur, giving an inclination of equal extent 

 in an opposite direction. The exposure in the bay is ten 

 feet high, and is worn into caves. The colour is a pale-buff 

 with some reddish-brown layers. Fucoids are abundant, 

 and become, when weathered, yellowish-buff. Small oaks 

 are scattered near the spot where we camped, interspersed 

 with aspen. In the rear tamarac and spruce swamps 

 prevented an examination of the country for more than 

 a few hundred yards from the shore. Where rock in 

 position does not limit the lake, the marginal barrier of 

 boulders is generally found with a beach, a marsh, or a 

 swamp in the rear. 



October 1st. — Collected fossils, breakfasted, and pulled 

 to Steep Bock Point. Here the limestone (Devonian) is 

 twenty feet high, quite abrupt, with six feet of water at 

 the base of the cliff. The layers are more massive and 

 compact than before noticed ; they occur from one to 

 three feet in thickness, are very hard, and hold many 

 organic forms replaced by crystalline carbonate of lime. 

 Three and a half fathoms of water were found within one 

 hundred yards of Steep Eock Point. A number of swans 

 were seen sailing in a little bay to the south of this land- 

 mark in Lake Manitobah, which, by the way, the Indians 

 who hunt in this part of the country do not visit, being 

 persuaded that " little men " live in the caves and holes 

 into which the rock has been worn by the action of the 

 waves. We ran on before the wind, past Cherry Islands 

 and Point Pa-oo-nan, or the Waiting Place, until dark, 

 and then made for the shore, soon finding a small 

 sheltered bay in the inside of a boulder beach in process 

 of formation, about two hundred yards from land. Tem- 

 perature of the lake, 53 deg. ; greatest depth of water 

 recorded, twenty-two feet. 



"Unfortunately the beach consisted of water-worn peb- 



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