THE 



ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN 

 EXPLORING EXPEDITION 



of 1858. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



LAKE WINNIPEG. RED RIVER TO THE LITTLE SASKATCHEWAN. 



Mouth of Red River. — Aurora. — Weather Signs. — Channel at the Mouth of 

 Red River. — Storm. — Character of the South Coast of Lake Winnipeg. — 

 Fresh-water Shells. — New Land. — West Coast. — ConfervaB. — The Willow 

 Islands. — Clay Cliffs. — Good Land. — Drunken River. — Aurora. — Rock 

 Exposure. — Deer Island. — Section on Deer Island. Equivalent of the 

 Chazy Formation. — Fishing Ground. — Miskena. — Grindstone Point. — Rev. 

 Mr. Brooking. — Rocks at Grindstone Point. — The Little Grindstone Point. 

 — East Coast of Lake Winnipeg. — Punk Island. — Yellow Ochre. — Coast 

 near Dog's Head. — Limestone Cave Point. — Fissured Rocks. — Jack Fish 

 River. — Fisher Bay. — The Cat Head. — Little Saskatchewan Bay. — East 

 Coast of Lake Winnipeg. — Dimensions of Lake Winnipeg. — Elevation 

 and Distance of the Lake Superior Watershed. — Elevation of the Mis- 

 sissippi Watershed. 



The early period of the year during which the arrival 

 of winter may be expected to close the navigation of the 

 lakes and rivers of Rupert's Land, makes every autumnal 

 day valuable for continuing an exploration in canoes or 

 batteaux. A fortnight, however, after our return from 



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