McLeod Lake, with a chain of three lakes of two and a half to three miles in length. The upper twenty-five miles of the river is very crooked and shallow; the banks are low and cut by numerous arms and sloughs. There are numerous hay meadows at the turns. For the greater part of this distance the river is from 100 to 300 feet wide, the water being quite dead, suggesting the broads of Norfolk, and forming an ideal natural canal. On the lower part of the river the banks are low, composed of silts thickly covered with alders and willows. The general course of the river is about north. In a few places the stream narrows down and is rapid, but very small, being occasionally reduced to a width of 5 or 6 feet. In these parts if runs over gravel and boulders. Shallow sandbars exist in places over which the water flows swiftly, and between the bars are holes and slack water from 6 to 15 feet deep. On the upper river travellers often find it necessary in summer to get into the water at the bars and haul their canoes across. The last two weeks in May are considered the best times for travelling on this river. : The best way to reach good boating on the Crooked River—that is, at Davie Lake—is to utilize the dry gravel jack-pine bench extending from there south- easterly to the Fraser, instead of the route via Giscome Portage. By way of Charley Paul Creek, about twelve miles up the Fraser from Giscome, was a route used in the first gold-rush. There is good timber for boat-building at Davie Lake. From there to McLeod Lake Post is deep slack water, almost a continual succession of lakes and sloughs, ideal for motor-boats; in fact, with the exception of a short stretch—about 100 feet—of swift water some few miles above the Nation River and the Finlay and Parle Pas Rapids, the whole route to Rocky Mountain Portage, where the canyon stops navigation, is good for steamboats for seyeral months of the spring and summer. : COUNTRY NEAR CROOKED RIVER. The land generally near the Crooked River is undulating and covered with scrub pine averaging about S inches, some balsam and cottonwood, and some small jack- pine .and alder. Along the river-bank, extending back for from 5 to 10 chains, are strips of spruce, poplar, jack-pine, and willow flats, where the soil, except in the jack-pine, is suitable for agricultural purposes. Back of this the country is undulat- ing, hilly, and timbered with spruce and jack-pine. The soil is sandy and gravelly. About twenty-two miles from Summit Lake the river makes a big bend, and about three miles east of this bend is Dominion Lake, and another smaller lake about a mile north. The Little Salmon River joins the Crooked River from the east, flowing around Tea Pot Mountain. The country and soil are similar in this’ vicinity. ; For about six miles below here the river runs very swift over shallow rapids, _ through a rocky spruce, poplar, and jack-pine country, when it widens through a willow-flat and flows for about nine miles, practically dead-water about 10 to 15 feet deep, into Davie Lake. This lake, about five miles long by two in width, is about thirty-five miles from Summit Lake, along the-course of the river. Observations here show: Latitude, 50° 31’ 41”; elevation, 2,425 feet. A low range of hills forming the watershed between the Little Salmon and Crooked Rivers slopes up from here for five or six miles to the summit, 700 feet above the lake, timbered with some fairly good spruce and fir from 10 to 15 inches, some birch and jack-pine, with sandy soil. An unnamed creek empties into the Crooked River about a mile below the outlet of Davie Lake, a stream about 20 feet wide. The land it drains does not differ from the surrounding country. Six miles down-stream from this creek the river widens into a shallow slough called Long Lake, and from there an Indian trail runs seven miles and a half north-easterly to Tuchie Lakes, on the divide between the Crooked and Parsnip Rivers, at an elevation of 2,800 feet above sea-level. The country here is much about the same; in fact, it is characteristically the same from Summit Lake to Fort McLeod. The two Tuchie Lakes are clear-water expanses surrounded by well-timbered hills. he westerly lake drains down into the valley of the Crooked River at high water; the other down a shallow river about five miles in length 12