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C H A P T E R V I .
ON THE TRAIL TO PEACE RIVER.
B Y the afternoon of the 12th we had finished our work at
the lake, and i n the evening left the scene of so much amusement,
and its l i v e l y and intelligent people, not without regret.
H a v i n g said good- bye to Bishop Clut and his clergy, and to
the Hudson's Bay Company's people, and others, we passed
on to Salt Creek, which we crossed at dusk, and then to the
South Heart River— Otaye Sepe— where we camped for the
night. This affluent of the lake has a broad but sluggish
current, its grassy banks sloping gently to the water's edge,
l i k e some Ontario river— the beau ideal of a pike stream.
The Church of England Mission was established here in
charge of the Reverend M r . Holmes, who had shown us every
kindness during our long stay. As boats can ascend i n high
water to this point, the Hudson's B a y Company had a couple
of large warehouses close by, standing alone, and filled with
a l l kinds of goods. The t r a i l led for many miles up a long,
easy ascent, through a timber country, to an upper plateau,
with, after passing the Heart River, occasional small patches
of prairie on the wayside. The plateau itself is the anticlinal
down which the N o r t h Heart flows to Peace River, which it
joins at the crossing.
The t r a i l so far had been good, but after crossing Slippery
Creek it proved to be almost a continuous mud- hole, due to
its extreme narrowness and the wet weather, closely bordered,
as much of it was, by dense forests. It revealed a
good farming country, however, free from stones, and the
soil a rich, loamy clay throughout. It was well timbered, in
some places, with the finest white poplar I had yet seen.
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| OCR | C H A P T E R V I . ON THE TRAIL TO PEACE RIVER. B Y the afternoon of the 12th we had finished our work at the lake, and i n the evening left the scene of so much amusement, and its l i v e l y and intelligent people, not without regret. H a v i n g said good- bye to Bishop Clut and his clergy, and to the Hudson's Bay Company's people, and others, we passed on to Salt Creek, which we crossed at dusk, and then to the South Heart River— Otaye Sepe— where we camped for the night. This affluent of the lake has a broad but sluggish current, its grassy banks sloping gently to the water's edge, l i k e some Ontario river— the beau ideal of a pike stream. The Church of England Mission was established here in charge of the Reverend M r . Holmes, who had shown us every kindness during our long stay. As boats can ascend i n high water to this point, the Hudson's B a y Company had a couple of large warehouses close by, standing alone, and filled with a l l kinds of goods. The t r a i l led for many miles up a long, easy ascent, through a timber country, to an upper plateau, with, after passing the Heart River, occasional small patches of prairie on the wayside. The plateau itself is the anticlinal down which the N o r t h Heart flows to Peace River, which it joins at the crossing. The t r a i l so far had been good, but after crossing Slippery Creek it proved to be almost a continuous mud- hole, due to its extreme narrowness and the wet weather, closely bordered, as much of it was, by dense forests. It revealed a good farming country, however, free from stones, and the soil a rich, loamy clay throughout. It was well timbered, in some places, with the finest white poplar I had yet seen. 6 81 |
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