396 ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN EXPEDITION. 



Eed Eiver ; the Assinniboine does not contribute largely 

 to the flooding of the country ; its waters indeed, are said 

 to find their way to Lake Manitobah, down the valley of 

 Eat Eivulet, during freshets, and the prairies at Pembina 

 show, from the trunks of large trees scattered over them, 

 that they were covered with water in 1852. Hence it 

 appears that there is no possibility of guarding against 

 these inundations, and that part of Eed Eiver Settlement 

 above the Watermill Creek, subject to them, will always 

 suffer from the disadvantages inseparable from such de- 

 vastating occurrences. 



