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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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rshyintervals, or they rise in ridges which become hills 300 to500 feet high, half a mile to four miles from the lake.The timber seems to be very small and thin in themarshes, and on the islands, which exceed 500 innumber, the largest growth was observed. Taken as awhole, the general aspect of the shores is forbidding,and furnishes on the ridges and hill flanks a picture ofhopeless sterility and desolate waste. Dr. Bigsby saysthat there is but little loose debris about Eainy Lake, theearth or gravel banks being scarce, and seldom exceedinga few feet in thickness. Whenever the land rises, for themost part bleached and naked rocks occur for manysquare miles together. Colonel Lefroy made Eainy Lake 1,160 feet above thesea, by barometrical measurement. Its height deducedfrom the levels taken at the portages, and the estimatedrise and fall in the current of the rivers along the lineof route, was 1,035 feet. In this calculation the level ofLake Superior is taken at 600 feet above the ocean.
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RAINY RIVER. 81 Major Long estimated it to be 1,200 feet above the samelevel. Eainy Lake freezes about the 1st December, and isopen about the 1st of May ; as is usually the case wherelarge rivers issue from spacious lakes, the dischargingstream is not frozen for a number of miles from its source.The warm waters coming from beneath a shelter of ice intheir capacious feeding lake, retain their heat so as toenable them to resist the cold of these regions for manymiles below the Chaudiere Falls. At the entrance of Eainy Eiver on the evening of August19th, the delightful odour of the balsam poplar (Populusbalsamifera) loaded the air, and seemed to welcome ourarrival in a region differing altogether from those throughwhich we had lately passed. Where Eainy Eiver issuesfrom Eainy Lake, it is a broad and rapid stream, with lowalluvial banks, clothed with a rich second growth. Thefine forests with which they were once covered had longsince been stripped of their ornaments by the occupantsof th

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