Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday March 19 The day starts in light and not very cold. After breakfast walked around the town for about three-quarters of an hour. It is a most 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 or more is impressive than the average of American cities. We start at 10 A.M. for Montreal. From we cross the Assiniboine a rather large and muddy stream. Its flow is very slow, and has received in the Lake Agony plain about 15 feet. The Lake Agony flats are said to continue to the east side of Riding Lake, thirty-five miles E of Winnipeg the forest begins and much of it is a small evergreen forest -- a few points 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 Kearnatm all is red, porphyry and foy granite, in low hills studded by innumerable small lakes. The glacial drift is very thin, easily noticeable but in places the granite buildings are common. As we get towards Kearnatm the rocks are