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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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ery acute angle and to analtitude of 283 feet above Little Dog Lake, an immensebank or ridge of stratified sand, holding small waterworn pebbles. The bank of sand continues to the summitof the portage, or 185 feet above the clay plateau. Theportage path does not pass over the highest part of thesand ridge; east of the path it is probable that itssummit is 500 feet, as before stated, above Little DogLake. In an endeavour to reach the head of Little Dog Eiverf,before it begins to make in its short course of about fouror five miles a precipitous descent of 347 feet, I foundthat much of the soil on the flanks of the Great DogMountain was far superior to the average quality in thevalley of the Kaministiquia. It consisted of a clay loam,with a gravelly subsoil, containing numerous pebbles and * Expedition to the Sources of the St. Peters River. f Little Dog River is a continuation of the Kaministiquia, but, in accor-dance with the Indian custom, it is named from the lake into which itflows.
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GREAT FALLS OF LITTLE DOG RIVER. 41 water-worn fragments of rock; this was particularlynoticed on the flanks and surface of the lower plateau. The upturned roots of trees in the track of a tornado,which must have occurred here some years since, affordedan excellent opportunity for examining the soil and sub-soil of the lowest plateau, and the flank of the upper one.The upturned roots of large aspens, birch, and pineshowed everywhere a gravelly loam containing pebblesfrom one to six inches in diameter. On approaching thesource of Little Dog Eiver, a black spruce swamp wasfound to occupy an extensive area but little above thelevel of the river. The clay soil in this swamp wascovered to the depth of two feet with moss, which wasagain largely overgrown with the Labrador tea plant.Small holes in the moss, filled with clear, cool, limpidfluid, afforded a striking contrast to the heated waters ofthe rivers and lakes; the temperature of these shallowwells did not exceed 42°, while the water

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