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128 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
Next morning, crossing the right bank of the river, and
leaving the boat, we walked to the foot of Grand Rapids.
Our path, if it could be called such, lay over a toilsome
jumble of huge, sharp- edged rocks, overhung fey & beetling
cliff of reddish- yellow sandstone, much of which seemed on
the point of falling. This whole bank, like so mu « h of this
part of the river, is planted, almost at - regular
with the great circular rocks already referred to.
globular or circular masses are a curious feature of
region. They have been shaped, no doubt, by the action of'
eddying water, yet are so numerous, and so much alike, as
to bespeak some abnormally uniform conditions in the past.
The Grand Rapids— Kitchi Powestik— the most formidable
on the river, are divided by a narrow, wooded island,
over a quarter of a mile in length, upon which the Hudson's
Bay Company have a wooden tramway, the cars being
pushed along by hand. Towards the foot of the island is
a smaller one near the left shore, and here is the larger
cascade, a very violent rapid, with a fall from the crest to
the foot of the island of thirty feet, more or less. The narrower
passage is to the right of the island, and is called the
" Free Traders' Channel." The river, in full freshet, was
very muddy- looking, detracting much from the beauty of
the rapids.
The Hudson's Bay Company have storehouses at each
end of the tramway, but for their own use only. Freetraders
have to portage their supplies over a very rough path
beneath the cliffs. Both banks of the river are of sandstone;
capped on the left by a wall of cream- coloured rock, seventy
or eighty feet in height, at a guess. A creek comes in fronj
the west which has cloven the sandstone bank almost to & ur
water's edge; and running along the top of these sandstone
formations are, everywhere, thick layers of coal, which - is'
also found, in a great bed, on the opposite shore, and •^ Pttfr-three
miles back from the river. The coal had been usedttj|;
a trapper there, and is a good burner and heater, leaf*'"
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| OCR | • s, 128 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN Next morning, crossing the right bank of the river, and leaving the boat, we walked to the foot of Grand Rapids. Our path, if it could be called such, lay over a toilsome jumble of huge, sharp- edged rocks, overhung fey & beetling cliff of reddish- yellow sandstone, much of which seemed on the point of falling. This whole bank, like so mu « h of this part of the river, is planted, almost at - regular with the great circular rocks already referred to. globular or circular masses are a curious feature of region. They have been shaped, no doubt, by the action of' eddying water, yet are so numerous, and so much alike, as to bespeak some abnormally uniform conditions in the past. The Grand Rapids— Kitchi Powestik— the most formidable on the river, are divided by a narrow, wooded island, over a quarter of a mile in length, upon which the Hudson's Bay Company have a wooden tramway, the cars being pushed along by hand. Towards the foot of the island is a smaller one near the left shore, and here is the larger cascade, a very violent rapid, with a fall from the crest to the foot of the island of thirty feet, more or less. The narrower passage is to the right of the island, and is called the " Free Traders' Channel." The river, in full freshet, was very muddy- looking, detracting much from the beauty of the rapids. The Hudson's Bay Company have storehouses at each end of the tramway, but for their own use only. Freetraders have to portage their supplies over a very rough path beneath the cliffs. Both banks of the river are of sandstone; capped on the left by a wall of cream- coloured rock, seventy or eighty feet in height, at a guess. A creek comes in fronj the west which has cloven the sandstone bank almost to & ur water's edge; and running along the top of these sandstone formations are, everywhere, thick layers of coal, which - is' also found, in a great bed, on the opposite shore, and •^ Pttfr-three miles back from the river. The coal had been usedttj|; a trapper there, and is a good burner and heater, leaf*'" |
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