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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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meet the eye in ascending the river between theLower Port and 49th parallel are uniform, but singularand interesting. In order to arrive at a true conception of its physicalfeatures, it is merely necessary to imagine a river from200 to 350 feet broad, with a moderately rapid current,having in the course of ages excavated a winding trenchor cut to the depth of from thirty to forty feet in tenaciousclay, through a nearly level country for a distance exceed-ing 100 miles, and the general physical aspect of EedEiver, within British territory, is reproduced. Here andthere local diversities occur which give some appearanceof variety. Such are noticed at the Grand Eapids, wherethe even flow is broken and disturbed by a ledge oflimestone, which may occasion a fall of six feet withina mile. A lower terrace has here and there been exca-vated perhaps ten feet below the general level of theprairie banks. Occasionally sand, mud, and gravel barsare formed at the numerous sharp turns in the general
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BANKS OF RED RIVER. 129 course of the stream, before the volume of its watersis augmented by the Assinniboine which comes in atFort Garry. These projecting bars or points are oftencovered with fragments of limestone, primitive boulders,and vast numbers of large fresh-water shells. The cur-rent round them is rapid, and during low stages theypresent an obstacle to the navigation of the river bymeans of steamers exceeding 120 feet in length. Often,too, on one side or the other, and sometimes on bothsides, a narrow belt of heavy forest timber closes uponthe river, and seems suddenly to narrow and darkenits abrupt windings. The most uniform character, how-ever, and one which is more frequently found on thewest side, is a clean and steep hue of bank about thirtyfeet in altitude, perfectly level to the eye, and formingthe boundary of a vast ocean of prairie, whose horizon orintermediate surface is rarely broken by small islands ofpoplar or willow, and whose long, rank, and luxuriantgrasses s

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