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issues with a channel about twenty feet wide and two feet deep, being at once, a considerable river. Thence it runs in a northerly direction to Lac Travers; thence east to Cass Lake, about one hundred and sixty five miles from its source. Twenty miles below it passes through Lake Winnepeck. Each of these lakes are beautiful sheets of clear water. From Cass Lake to the falls of the Pickagama, the river is very crooked, and bordered on both sides with swamps. "The channel of the river, through these swamps", says Lieut. Allen, "is sometimes three hundred yards wide, and again branched into many channels which run a short distance and expand into little lakes bordered only with grass growing in the water, and from which other little channels, through [which] the tall grass, ran on to unite again with the main [river] one. The whole country seemed covered with water from one to three feet deep, but the grass rose several feet above the surface in the deepest parts, growing very thick". Four hundred and fifty miles below the falls of Pickagama the river receives from