INDEX. 



Agate Islands, agates of the, i. 13. 

 Agriculture, apathy of the people of Red 



River settlements in relation to, i. 



223. 



results of this apathy, i. 224. 



causes of the absence of progress, i. 



225. 



cultivated crops at Red River, i. 225. 



Agricultural implements of Red River set- 

 tlements, i. 229. 



Air, fetid, from the marshes near the Qu'- 

 appelle River, i. 331. 



Alexander, Fort, on the Winnipeg River, 

 i. 121. 



Alluvial flats, Saskatchewan River, i. 445. 



■ formation of, i. 457. 



Alonquins, territory inhabited by the, ii. 

 180, 181. 



Ammonites, from M'Kenzie River, ii. 306. 



■ from the Souris, ii. S38. 



Ammonites Barnstoni, ii. 307, 311. 



Billingsii, ii. 315. 



placenta, ii. 340. 



Animal life, scarcity of, on the route, i. 55. 



. on the Winnipeg River, i. 115. 



• — near the Souris Lakes, i. 300. 



on the south branch of the Saskatche- 

 wan, i. 388, 893. 



causes of the absence of animal life in 



the prairies, i. 424, 425. 



Anomia Flemingi, ii. 334. 



Anser hyperboreus, flocks of, on the Little 

 Saskatchewan River, ii. 29. 



Antelope, prong-horned ( Antilocapra Ame- 

 ricana), on the Souris Lakes, i. 300. 



herds of, in the prairie west of the 



Little Souris River, i. 306. 



on the borders of the Qu'appelle 



valley, i. 318. 



Ant-hills, gigantic, on the Winnipeg River, 

 i. 115. 



Antiquities, Indian, rarely found in the 

 valley of the Saskatchewan, ii. 120. 



at Red River, ii. 121. 



Appendix, ii. 399, et seq. 



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Arable land on the Red Assinniboine and 



Saskatchewan Rivers, i. 250. 

 Areas fit for settlement in the valley of the 



Assinnihoine, i. 24 6, 250. 

 in the valley of the Saskatchewan, i. 



249. 



east of the Riding and Duck Moun- 

 tains, i. 250. 

 Arrow Lake, i. 76. 

 Ashes' Lake, i. 411. 



Ashley, Hon. Evelyn, his trip into the 



prairies, ii. 82. 

 Aspen forests on the south branch of the 



Saskatchewan, i. 386. 

 — — former, on the south branch of the 



Saskatchewan, i. 391. 

 and on the main Saskatchewan, i. 



404. 



increase of, at Spy Hill, i. 425. 



near Dauphin Lake, ii. 61. 



Assinniboia, i. 127. 



- governor and council of, i. 183. 



administration of justice at, i. 183. 



quarterly courts, i. 184. 



. lower district court, i. 185. 



Assinniboine River, i. 127. 



etymology of the name, i. 127 note. 



■ its junction with the Red River, i. 



132. 



— its character and course, i. 136. 



its width, depth, and rate of current, 



i. 136. 



volume of water in the, i. 137- 



effect of evaporation on its volume of 



water, i. 137. 



its affluents, i. 138. 



its course, i. 139. 



its physical features, i. 139. 



sand and mud flats in the river at 



Prairie Portage, i. 141. 



timber on its banks, i. 141, 1 42. 



scarcity of fuel in the valley of, i. 



144. 



— — confluence of the Assinniboine and 

 Red River, i. 153. 



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