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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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t broods of grasshoppers, one withwings not yet formed, which had been hatched on thespot, the other full-grown, invaders from the prairiessouth of the Assinniboine. We saw here one of the vastflights of these insects which afterwards were witnessed ona scale of alarming magnitude, giving rise in their passagethrough the air to optical phenomena of very rare andbeautiful descriptions. As we cautiously approached thebank of the river opposite the mouth of the Little Souris,on the look-out for Sioux Indians, some jumping deerand a female elk were observed gamboling in theriver. A shot from a Minie rifle dispersed them andstarted from their lair two wolves who were watchingthe deer, patiently waiting for an opportunity to surprisethem. The volume of water in both rivers was carefullymeasured at their point of junction. The Assinniboinewas found to be 230 feet broad, with a mean depthof 6 feet, and a current of one mile and a quarter perhour. The Little Souris was 121 feet broad, 2 feet 4
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BLUE HILLS OF THE SOURIS. 289 inches in mean depth, and flowing at the rate of halfa mile an hour. Observing numbers of fish rising atgrasshoppers in the Souris, we stretched a gill net acrossthe mouth of the river, and succeeded in taking pick-erel, gold-eyes, and suckers, the grey and the red. In asecond attempt we caught a tartar; a huge sturgeon gotentangled in the meshes of the gill net, and before wecould land him he succeeded in breaking away and car-rying a portion of the net with him. Signs of Sioux Indians in the neighbourhood led toour keeping watch during the night; and on the morningof the 25th we proceeded cautiously up the valley of theSouris, keeping a sharp look out. On the left bank theBlue Hills of the Souris are visible ten miles from themouth of the stream, and towards the west, the MooseHead Mountain is seen to approach the Grand Eapids ofthe Assinniboine. The first rock exposure in the valleywas observed about fifteen miles from the mouth of theSouris. It consis

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