The Saskatchawan becomes wider above the Grand Rapid, and the scenery improves.

The banks are high, composed of white clay and limestone, and their summits are richly clothed with a variety of firs, poplars, birches, and willows.

The current runs with great rapidity, and the channel is in many places intricate and dangerous, from broken ridges of rock jutting into the stream.

We pitched our tents at the entrance of Cross Lake, having advanced only five miles and a half.
Cross Lake is extensive, running towards the N.E.it is said, for forty miles.

We crossed it at a narrow part, and pulling through several winding channels, formed by a group of islands, entered Cedar Lake, which, next to Lake Winipeg, is the largest sheet of fresh water we had hitherto seen.