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THE journey to Fort Rae, though long, was full of interest and variety. Our party, consisting of myself; two sergeants, and an artificer, of the Royal Artillery, left Winnipeg on June 9 by steamer for Fort Carlton, on the Saskatchewan,viâ Lake Winnipeg. We were detained a day in that lake by ice, but reached the mouth of the Saskatchewan on the 13th, where we were delayed four days trans-shipping cargo to the river steamer, which lay three miles off at the upper end of the rapids; a tedious voyage of eight days took us to Carlton, a stockaded port on the south bank of the river. For the first three days the country seemed one immense swamp, with numerous shallow lakes; then the banks gradually grow higher, till at “the Forks”(the confluence of the north and south branches of the Saskatchewan) they are about 150 feet above the river. Here the soil seems very rich and fertile, and about the new settlement of Prince Albert, a day higher up, the country is quite English in appearance— undulating, covered with rich grass, with woods here and there—a far more attractive-looking country than the flat, treeless prairie near Winnipeg.
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The British Circumpolar Expedition 1 . Nature 27, 484–485 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027484a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/027484a0