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up by land from the place they first meet the Horses, and generally from the rivière du Milieu Horses or not. The Rivière du Milieu is ten leagues below the Pine Fort. The face of the Country from the Grande Tremblière to the Westernmost end of the Montagne du Diable is very poor and barren, and the soil mostly yellow sand, all broken into little Hillocks, is separated from one another by as many little glens. But at the Montagne du Diable which commences at the Pine Fort and continues nearly two leagues to the Westward, the Country turns one great plain to the head of the Assiniboine River and even to Fort George and the Rocky Mountains.

The Indians that trade at the Rivière La Sourie are a mixture of all the Nations in the Assiniboine River; the Crees are the most numerous; the others are roving Sauteux that are sometimes here, sometimes at Fort Dauphin, sometimes at the Lac du Manitou Ban, and other places whenever fancy leads them – and Assinibois the same as at Fort des Prairies,

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