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duce a short grass, which supports numerous herds of buffaloes. 
But the newer deposites beneath the high bank, contain much 
more vegetable matter, and are in general overgrown by willows 
and poplars. 
The plains do not extend far to the northward of the Saskatr 
chewan, but they reach the base of the rocky mountains on the 
westward ; and on the southward, their extent is very great. 
About ten years ago, there were numerous small lakes in the 
neighbourhood of Carlton ; but since that time, many of them 
have dried up. The older people, too, repeat that the waters of 
the Saskatchewan have been gradually diminishing. On the face 
of some of the banks, there are many loose stones, precisely sir 
milar to the calcareous rocks at the mouth of the river. 
Near Edmonston House, about SOO miles above Carlton 
House, several beds of coal are exposed, one of which was acci- 
dentally set on fire some years ago, and still continues burning. 
The commander of the expedition was on the 1st June still 
occupied in preparing for the journey to the northward, the 
journey to Carlton having absorbed much time. 
Art. XXIII . — Notice of Captain Parry’s Voyage Disco- 
very. By Professor Jameson. With a Chart of Captain 
Parry’s Discoveries in the Arctic Seas. 
The nfemorable voyages of Davis in the years 1585, 6, and 
7 ; of Hudson in 1610; of Baffin in 1616; and of Fox, Ellis, 
and Middleton, in succeeding periods, may be considered as the 
principal' sources of the discoveries made in the countries to the 
northward and westward of Cape Farewell, the most southern 
point of West Greenland. The many considerable Sounds dis- 
covered by these navigators in Baffin’s Bay and Hudson’s Bay, 
have always been considered as objects of great geographical in- 
terest ; and various circumstances have led to the opinion, that 
some, if not all of them, communicate with the Polar Sea, thus 
affording a hope of their leading to the discovery of the long- 
sought for North-West Passage around the northern coasts of 
America, through Behring’s Strait, into the Great South Sea. 
Mr Ellis, in his interesting work, entitled, A Voyage to Hud- 
son’s Bay,” infers from the following, amongst other circum- 
