...Fort Liard is situated lower down, after the river has made a sharp turn to the north, in its course towards the Mackenzie, which it joins at Fort Simpson....American magpie, Say's grouse, and the white crane (Grrus americana). Mr. M'Pherson had most kindly set aside for me a cask of excellent corned beef,...

...quality. Barley and oats yield goo<J crops, and in favorable seasons wheat ripens well. This pluce, then, or the 60th parallel, may be considered as the...wheat. It has been already mentioned that the Wapiti or Wawaskcesftoo of the Crees, the representative of the European red deer, does not range to the north...

...further north. In the neighbourhood of the Mackenzie, Sir John Richardson says that, "Fort Laird, on the 60th parallel, may be considered as the northern limit of the economical culture of wheat." As in the interior of Russian America the climate must be of a drier nature than upon the seaboard,...

...oats yield good crops, and in favorable seasons wheat ripens well." This place, then he adds, " on the 60th parallel may be considered as the northern limit of the economical culture of wheat." A little further he says, " Mr. McPherson had most kindly set aside for me a cask of excellent corned...

...yield good crops, and in favourable seasons wheat ripens well This locality, then, he adds, on the 60° parallel may be considered as the northern limit of the economical culture of wheat. Such being the climate at that latitude on the Du Liard Eiver, it may reasonably be assumed to be fully...