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CHAP. XXIV. 



THE MOUTH OF THE LITTLE SASKATCHEWAN, OR DAUPHIN 

 KIVEK, TO THE SALT SPRINGS ON WINNIPEG O-SIS LAKE. 



The Little Saskatchewan. — Height of Bank. — Country in Rear. — Tracking. — 

 Swamps. — Banks of River. — Ojibway Camp. — White-fish. — Character of 

 Country. — Canoe Fleet. — Spruce. — Boulders. — Marsh. — St. Martin Lake. 

 — "Money." — Pounded Fish. — War-path River. — War Roads. — Ojibway, 

 Sioux, Swampy, Cree, Blackfoot, and Crow. — Wavys. — Fine Land. — 

 The Narrows. — Boulder Barriers. — Sugar Island. — Indians. — Gneissoid 

 Islands. — St. Martin Rocks. — Beach Barriers. — Depth of St. Martin Lake. 

 — Thunder Island. — Thunder-storm. — Partridge Crop River. — Rushes. — 

 Old Mission. — Low Country. — Indian Farmer. — Wide-spread Marsh. — 

 Fairford. — The Character of the Country. — The Mission. — Evening- 

 Service. — Rev. Mr. Stagg. — The Farm. — Hudson's Bay Company's Post. 

 — Rum. — Lake Manitobah. — Progress of the Season. — Rocks. — Fossils. — 

 The Coast. — Steep Rock Point. — Devonian Rocks. — Indian Superstition. 

 — Water-hen River. — Eagles. — Character of Water-hen River. — Pelicans. 

 — Indians. — Wood and Prairie Indians. — Barter. — Winnipego-sis Lake. 

 — Ermine Point. — Elms. — Salt Spring. — Snake Islands.— -Duck Mountain. 

 — Snake Island Fossils. — Arrive at Salt Springs. 



A few Hundred yards above the mouth of the river, ho- 

 rizontal Lower Silurian limestone shows itself on both 

 sides, and it is through this rock that the Little Saskat- 

 chewan has excavated its bed. The limestone contains 

 fossils in abundance, but in very bad state of preservation 

 in many of the layers. They are similar to those found 

 on Lake Winnipeg at Cave Point, and in its lithological 

 aspect there is no appreciable difference between the ex- 

 posures in either locality. The Little Saskatchewan, as 

 its name implies, has a very rapid current, varying from 

 one to four miles an hour. The banks are not more than 



