SOUTH COAST OF LAKE WINNIPEG. 



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tent pitched ; our camp ground was reduced to a strip of 

 sand eight yards broad and seven inches above the river 

 on one side, with overflowing swamps on the other ; if 

 the storm had continued half an hour longer we should 

 have been compelled to take to the boat and drift into 

 the reeds, at the risk of being stranded when the gale 

 subsided and the water retired from the marshes into the 

 lake. 



Beach of Lake Winnipeg, near the Mouths of Bed Eiver. 



For many miles the south coast of Lake Winnipeg 

 consists of alternate strips of sand sustaining willows, and 

 narrow, reedy marshes running parallel to the coast line. 

 Some of these sand strips show many years of duration 

 when well protected by drift timber, others are of recent 

 origin, clean and bare, enclosing ponds in which rushes 

 are only just beginning to show themselves. They are the 

 records of the progress made by new land in its invasion 



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