The long ago : facts of history from the writings of Captain Alexander Henry, Hon. Charles Cavileer, H.V. Arnold, Colonel C.A. Lounsberry and others

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: State Historical Society of North Dakota
• Subjects: Hudson Bay; Hudson; Grand Forks; Lanes; Steamboat; Red Lake; Big Stone Lake
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/38906

36 THE LONG AGO, the river at its ordinary stage is 943 feet above sea-level; the altitude of Lake Winnipeg is 710 feet, hence the fall of what has here been alluded to as the navigable part of the river amounts to 233 feet. For twelve miles as the river runs, next below the mouth of the Goose, the...