Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 . THE GREAT DOG PORTAGE. 39 Extensive areas covered with burnt forest trees, con-sisting chiefly of pine, occur in the valley of the river asfar as Little Dog Lake, when the formidable barrier of theGreat Dog Mountain, sustaining a heavy growth of timber,comes into view. Occasionally aspens of large dimen-sions may be seen from the canoe, but it is not until theplateau of the Great Dog Mountain is attained that theyacquire a diameter varying from eighteen to
Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 . THE GREAT DOG PORTAGE. 39 Extensive areas covered with burnt forest trees, con-sisting chiefly of pine, occur in the valley of the river asfar as Little Dog Lake, when the formidable barrier of theGreat Dog Mountain, sustaining a heavy growth of timber,comes into view. Occasionally aspens of large dimen-sions may be seen from the canoe, but it is not until theplateau of the Great Dog Mountain is attained that theyacquire a diameter varying from eighteen to twenty-fourinches, five feet from the ground. Trees of this species,and of the above dimensions, are found in abundance onthe elevated barrier which separates the region of Great. Entrance to Little Dog Lake, from the Kaministiquia River. Dog Lake from the valley of the Kaministiquia, 350 feetbelow. The Great Dog Portage rises 490 feet above the levelof Little Dog Lake, and at the point of greatest eleva-tion the ridge cannot be less than 500 feet over the samelake. The difference between the levels of Little andGreat Dog Lakes is 347*81 feet, and the length of theportage between them one mile and fifty-three view from the summit of the Great Dog is very r> 4 40 RED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION. striking; Little Dog Lake lies at our feet, an unbrokenforest of pines dotted with groves of aspen and birch, andin the swamp portions with tamarack, stretches in all di-rections from east to west, being bounded in the view bythe distant undulating outline of the wooded hills whichlimit the valley of the Kaministiquia. A portion of theabrupt escarpment of the elevated table land in the neigh-bourhood of McKays Mountain is distinctly visible inclear weather.
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