Download or read book Report of the Bureau of Mines Volume ¿. 5 written by Ontario. Bureau Of Mines and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...which is half a mile long and very rough. Two falls and tumultuous rapids are overcome by it, and the descent in that distance is 50 feet or more. The rapids below the second falls were run by the Indians in empty canoes, each one standing upright, and uttering wild yells of delight as his canoe leapt from crest to crest of the waves. From the foot of the portage, which was left at 9.50, the river runs northward into a cul-de-sac to turn again due west. A bay on the north side 250 yards in length and 100 yards wide at its mouth is suggestive of an old river bed, but we had no time to explore it. A rapid was run just below it, and at 10 o'clock we reached falls and rapids at the base of a high rocky bluff, where a short portage had to be made. The width of the river here is not more than 40 yards, and the channel looks like a canyon cut out by water or ice. An unfinished channel parallel with it on the south side is beautifully grooved for a length of 25 or.30 yards, and is covered with glacial scratches. " Pretty danger rapid here," Nicol said, as at 10.10 we left the foot of the short portage, and it was certainly 9. swift, narrow and deep current, with the north bank rising perpendicularly to a height of probably 70 or 80 feet. On the left the river expands into a bay, the shore of which is thickly covered with timber. At 10.15 another portage was reached, the river contracting to thirty yards, falling six feet abruptly and rushing off into a very swift and noisy rapid. The portage is about 300 yards long, and we completed it at 10,30. For the next mile the river is like a canal, running due west, with a high steep bank of rock on the right, cut at one point by a deep notch that looks like a closed-up channel. Below it is a...