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banks; after passing Mountain La Bosse, near a league above the Barrière on each side of the river, begins a ridge of hills about the distance of a mile on each side, and the level summit of this ridge is only level with the rest of the plain Country above, forming a deep vale between them, at the bottom of which runs the Assiniboine river which keeps a continual winding from one side to the other of the hills called by the French Grandes Côtes in the Valley below. Those that go up the river by land, owing to the continual windings of the river, have plenty of time to hunt Buffalo, Elk, Moose deer, Caberie, and Fowls of all kinds which abound in this Country, and nevertheless keep up with the Canoes. The Country is so plentiful that the Canoes have always either fresh meat or fowls on hand. The Country here is the same as below, one large plain interspersed with small Islands of wood here and there,

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