Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday March 19 The day starts in night and not very cold. After breakfast I walked around the town for about three-quarters of an hour. It is a fine impressive city and just now it is very dirty, the snow is all black. There are many large buildings but all in all the city of 200,000 is not more impressive than the average of American cities. I start at 10 A.M. for Montreal. From me cross the Assiniboine a rather large and muddy stream. Its flow is very slow, and lies received in the Lake Agony plain about 15 feet. The Lake Agony flats are said to continue to the east side of Rainy Lake, thirty-five miles E of Winnipeg the forest begins and much of it is a small mixed forest -- a few parts of birches and pines. Less than 2 hours east of Winnipeg we are in granite, a red granite in low hills, altitude about 1000 feet. Up to Kenoatim all is red, joint and fog granite, in low hills studded by innumerable small lakes. The glacial drift is very thin, barely noticeable but in places the granite boulders are common. As we get towards Kenoatim the rocks are