of
the existing state of affairs in the Saskatchewan. They result from the
thought and experience of-many long days of travel through a large
portion of the region to which they have reference. If I were asked
from what point of view I have looked upon this question, I would answer
From that point which sees a vast country lying, as it were, silently
awaiting the approach of the immense wave of human life which rolls
unceasingly from Europe to America. Far off as lie the regions of the
Saskatchewan from the Atlantic sea-board on which that wave is thrown,
remote as are the fertile glades which fringe the eastern slopes of the
Rocky Mountains, still that wave of human life is destined to reach those
beautiful solitudes, and to convert the wild luxuriance of their now
Useless vegetation into all the requirements of civilized existence. And
If it-be matter for desire that across this immense continent, resting
upon the two greatest oceans of the world, a powerful nation should.
arise with the strength and the manhood which race and climate and
tradition would assign to it--a nation which would look with no evil eye
upon the old mother land from whence it sprung, a nation which, having no
bitter memories to recall would have no idle prejudices to perpetuate
then surely it is worthy of all toil of hand and brain, on the part of
those who to-day rule, that this great link in the chain of such a future
nationality should no longer remain undeveloped, a prey to the conflicts
of savage races, at once the garden and the wilderness of the Central
Continent.

W. F. BUTLER, Lieutenant, 69th Regiment. Manitoba, 10th March, 1871.

APPENDIX A

Settlements (Half-breed) in Saskatchewan.

PRINCE ALBERT.--English half-breed. A Presbyterian Mission presided over
by Rev. Mr. Nesbit. Small post of Hudson Bay Company with large farm
attached. On North Branch of Saskatchewan River, 35 miles above junction
of both branches; a fine soil, plenty of timber, and good wintering
ground for stock; 50 miles east of Carlton, and 60 west of
Fort-a-la-Corne.

WHITEFISH LAKE.--English. Wesleyan Mission--only a few settlers--soil
good--timber plenty. Situated north-east of Victoria 60 miles.

LAC LA BICHE.--French half-breed. Roman Catholic Mission. Large farm
attached to mission with water grist mill, etc. Soil very good and timber
abundant; excellent fishery. Situated at 70 miles north-west from Fort
Pitt.

VICTORIA.--English half-breed. Wesle