Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 - Hardcover

Hind, Henry Youle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0888300441 ISBN 13: 9780888300447

Publisher: Imprint unknown, 1974

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...above Prairie Portage, sustain a fine forest, in which aspen, oak, birch, elm, THE WOODED REGION. 245 awl maple appear to prevail in numbers corresponding with the order in which they are enumerated; but this forest does not extend beyond the excavated valley of the river or its tributaries. All the affluents of the Assinniboine flow through deep ravines, which they have cut in the great plain they drain; these narrow valleys are well clothed with timber, consisting chiefly of aspen and balsam-poplar, but often varied with bottoms of oak, elm, ash, and the ash-leaved maple. On the west side of the main river, the valleys of the tributaries, such as the Little Souris and the Qu'appelle River, are timbered continuously for a distance of thirty to seventy miles from then-outlets, and at intervals only, further up stream. On the Qu'appelle River good timber is found as far as the mission; but in progressing westward it is seen gradually to diminish in size, and finally to disappear altogether. The Touchwood Hill Range, together with small parallel ranges, such as the Pheasant Mountain and the File Hill, averaging twenty miles in length by ten in breadth, are in great part covered with aspen forests, but the trees are generally small. At the Moose Woods, on the South Branch of the Saskatchewan, forests of aspen begin to appear; they continue, with occasional admixtures of birch and oak, more rarely of oak and elm, as far as the Grand Forks; here the spruce becomes common, and, with aspens, occupies the excavated valley of the main Saskatchewan for many miles. The hill-banks and the plateau on the south side of the river, for a distance of three or four miles south, sustain the Banksian pine, which disappears as the soil changes from a light sand to a rich and de...

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint unknown
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0888300441
• ISBN 13: 9780888300447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 949