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INDEX. 



Laurentian series, adoption of the term Lau- 



rentian ii. 280. 

 Laurentides, ice furrows of the, ii. 245. 

 Lautiger, Rev. Laurenz, frozen to death, ii. 



95—97. 



Indians reading the history of his 



journey from his tracks on the ice, 

 ii. 96. 



account of him, ii. 97, 98. 



Lawrence River, Great St., one of the 



sources of, i. 52. 

 Leaf City, i. 269. 

 Leaf River, i. 262. 

 Leda Hindi from the Souris, ii. 337. 

 Leech Lake, i. 431 ; ii. 99. 

 dance in the village on the south 



shore of, ii. 99. 



character of the country at, i. 432. 



Lignite at the Wood Hills, i. 318. 



Lightning in the prairies, i. 315. 



reported to exist on the Assinniboine 



River, i. 143. 

 . fibrous, thirty miles from the Qu'ap- 



pelle River, i. 384. 

 on the banks of the north branch of 



the Saskatchewan, i. 396. 

 existence of, on the Riding and Duck 



Mountains, ii. 345. 



in basin of the Missouri, ii. 346. 



on North Saskatchewan, ii. 347. 



■ on Red Deer River, ii. 348. 



on the South Saskatchewan, ii. 348. 



in Oregon and British Columbia, ii. 



348. 



Limestone near Fort William, i. 31. 



at Stone Fort, i. 130. 



boulders on the banks of the Little 



Souris, i. 299. 



in the valley of the Qu'appelle, i. 



332. 



near Cut-arm Creek, i. 423. 



■ fragments of, on the South Branch of 



the Saskatchewan, i. 387. 

 on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, i. 



480. 



exposure on Lake Winnipeg, ii. 12, 



14. 



— stratified, exposures on an island in 



St. Martin's Lake, ii. 33. 



on Snake Island, ii. 42. 



at Manitobah House, ii. 67. 



of Lakes Winnipeg and Manitobah, 



grooves and scratches on the, ii. 

 247. 



Limestone Point (Lake Winnipeg), i. 

 480. 



Limestone Cave Point, Lake Winnipeg, ii. 

 19. 



Locusts, general distribution of the ii. 

 385. 



Locusts, distinction between crickets, grass- 

 hoppers, and locusts, ii. 385. 

 the locust of the north-west (the 



acrydium femur-rubrum), ii. 387. 

 accounts of the appearance of swarms 



of locusts in 1857 and 1858, ii. 



389. 



■ limit of its ravages, ii. 390. 



females engaged in laying eggs, ii. 



390. 



vitality of the eggs, ii. 391. 



powers of flight, ii. 391 . 



elevation of flight above the sea, ii. 



392. 



food of the insect, ii. 392. 



effect of periodical visitations, ii. 



392. 



Logan, Sir William, his estimate of the 

 altitude of Lake Superior, i. 17. 



Long Rapids of the Rainy River, i. 82. 



scenery at the, i. 89. 



Long Lake, or Last Mountain Lake, i. 146, 

 335,411,414,415,421. 



Long Creek, an affluent of the Qu'appelle 

 River, i. 330, 402, 406. 



Main Saskatchewan River, its fertility, 



i. 400. 



old forest near, i. 404. 



— — - its breadth and rate of current, i. 

 406. 



fertility of the soil at, i. 406. 



source of, i. 406. 



Longfellow's " Hiawatha " quoted, ii. 15. 

 Loon's Narrows, i. 77. 



Straits (Lake Winnipeg), i. 493. 



Lumpy Hill of the Woods, i. 238, 407, 

 408. 



its fertility, i. 407. 



view from the, i. 408. 



soil south and east of the, i. 408. 



Lynx Bay, Lake Winnipeg, ii. 20. 



Mackay's Mountains, height of, i. 14. 

 Macbeth's Point, Lake Winnipeg, i. 489 ; 

 ii. 20. 



Macdonald, Rev. Robert, of Islington Mis- 

 sion, i. 111. 



Mackenzie, Mr. and Mrs., their hospitality, 

 ii. 65. 



Mr. Mackenzie, of Fort Pembina, frozen to 



death, ii. 91. 

 Mackenzie River, lignite beds in the valley 



of the, ii. 349. 

 Magpies on the Weed Ridge, Qu'appelle 



Valley, i. 316. 

 Mail, mode of conveying the, between Crow 



Wing and Red River Settlement, i. 



256. 



Mammoths, bones of, at Shell Creek, i. 

 312. 



