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This Report and all other publications of the Geological Survey may be ordered either from the publishers direct, or through any Bookseller in the Dominion.

ALSO THROUGH

SAMPSON, LOW & CO., 188 Fleet street, London.

F. A. BROCKHAUS, LEIPSIC, and

B. WESTERMAN & CO., 471 Broadway, New York.

ALFRED R. C. SELWYN, F.G.S., DIRECTOR.

REPORT OF PROGRESS

FOR

1872-73.

Montreal:

DAWSON BROTHERS.

1873.

NOTES OF A GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISANCE FROM LAKE SUPERIOR

TO FORT GARRY BY MR. SELWYN...

Explorations by Mr. Bell..

Choice of route......

Sturgeon Lake River....

Canoe route from Minietaki Lake to Lonely Lake..........

Lonely Lake, Hudson's Bay Post....

Islands in Lonely Lake........

Falls and Rapids on the English River..

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Junction of Mattawa and English Rivers; Portage 1,600 yards in length

Violent storm; Four inches of snow; Loss of life at the mouth of Red

River

Oak Point falls and portage; Flower Lake; Eagle Lake.............

Twenty-eight miles without portages....

Winnipeg River; Traverse of Lake Winnipeg; arrival at Fort Garry..

Distances between Lac des Mille Lacs and Fort Alexander.......

Height of Lac Seul......

GEOLOGICAL FEATURES...............................

Parallel bands of slaty rocks resting on Laurentian gneiss..........

Resemblance to rocks of the Quebec group; similar rocks at Lakes

Abbitibbe and Mistassini; age of these rocks, their influence on

the physical character and fertility of the region.......

Rocks between Lake Superior and Red River..........

Extract from Professor Keating's "Source of St. Peter's River," 1823.

Minerals and soil......

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