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CHAPTER III.
PINE ISLAND LAKE.—SILURIAN STRATA.—STURGEON RIVER.—PROGRESS OF SPRING.—BEAVER LAKE.—ISLE À LA CROSSE BRIGADE.—RIDGE RIVER.—NATIVE SCHOOLMASTER AND HIS FAMILY.—TWO KINDS OF STURGEON.—NATIVE MEDICINES.—BALD EAGLES.—PELICANS.—BLACK-BELLIED AND CAYENNE TERNS.—CRANES.—FROG PORTAGE.—MISSINIPI OR CHURCHILL RIVER.—ITS LAKE-LIKE CHARACTER.—POISONOUS PLANTS AND NATIVE MEDICINES.—ATHABASCA BRIGADE.—SAND-FLY LAKE.—THE COUNTRY CHANGES ITS ASPECT.—BULL-DOG FLY.—ISLE À LA CROSSE LAKE.—ITS ALTITUDE ABOVE THE SEA.—LENGTH OF THE MISSINIPI.—ISLE À LA CROSSE FORT.—ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION.—DEEP RIVER.—CANADA LYNX.—BUFFALO LAKE.—METHY RIVER AND LAKE.—MURRAIN AMONG THE HORSES.—BURBOT OR LA LOCHE.—A MINK.—METHY PORTAGE.—JOIN MR. BELL AND HIS PARTY.
We left Cumberland House at 4 a.m., on the 14th of June, but had not passed above three miles through Pine Island Lake, before we were compelled to seek shelter on a small island by a violent thunder storm, bringing with it torrents of rain. The rain moderating after a few hours, we resumed our voyage; but the high wind continuing and raising the waves, our progress was slow, and the day's voyage did not exceed twenty-two miles. In the part of the lake where we encamped the limestone (silurian) rises, in successive outcrops, to the height of thirty feet above the water, the strike of the beds being about south-west by west, and north-east by east, or at right angles to the general line of direction of the gneiss and granite formation, which lies to the eastward. Many boulders of granite and trap rocks are scattered over the surface of the ground, far beyond the reach of any modern means of transport.