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Title: Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Hind, Henry Youle, 1823-1908 Weller, Edward, d. 1884, engraver Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873, cartographer Hime, Humphrey Lloyd, photographer Fleming, John, 1836-1876, ill Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887, former owner. DSI Allen, Edward G., associated name. DSI Spottiswoode & Co., printer of plates Canada. Library of Parliament, former owner. DSI Assinniboine & Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition (1858)
Subjects: Hind, Henry Youle, 1823-1908 Assinniboine & Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition (1858) Geology Indians of North America
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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htangles to the general course of the valley, give a clue tothe mode in which the lakes were separated one fromthe other. It is very probable that they were once allunited. Geese appeared in large numbers in the Fourth Lake,and at its western end we saw a splendid flock of peli-cans containing thirty-five individuals ; as we approachedthey sailed majestically round and round, but took flightbefore we arrived within gunshot. Magpies are verynumerous in the thin woods fringing the lakes; so also aregrackles, the cat bird, and many smaller birds. The FourthLake is very shallow at its western extremity, six feetbeing the greatest depth recorded. The hills on thenorth side are quite bare, and trees on the south sideare found only in the ravines. The lake is full of weedsand its water emits a very disagreeable odour, but thewatermarks show, that during spring freshets, its level iseight feet higher than in the summer season. This is animportant fact when taken in connection with the alleged
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CHARACTER OF TPIE QUAPPELLE VALLEY. 329 appearance of the whole valley during wet springs ; it isthen said to resemble a broad river from a few miles eastof the Saskatchewan to the Assinniboine. In 1852, a yearmemorable in Euperts Land for the great floods whichcovered an immense tract of country, the Indians repre-sent the Quappelle VaUey as filled with a mighty riverthroughout its entire length, flowing with a swift currentfrom the lakelets at the Height of Land, soon to be de-scribed, to the Assinniboine, and as a mountain torrentthrough the short distance of twelve miles, which sepa-rates them from the South Branch of the Saskatchewan. After leaving the Fourth Lake and the marshes at itswest extremity, we paddled, sailed, or tracked up a narrowswift stream, four or five feet deep, seventy feet broad,and winding through an alluvial flat in a valley of un-diminished breadth and depth. The hill sides were nowabsolutely bare, not a tree or shrub was to be seen. Wehad reached the point

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