Excerpt from Descriptions of the Townships of the North-West Territories, Dominion of Canada, Vol. 2: Between the Third and Fourth Initial Meridians Outlines - Rolling prairie, the northern part rolling heavily. There are a few stones and gravel on the ridges. The soil is dry and composed of a sandy loam on a clay subsoil, with gravel in some places, and averaging about class 2. The clay subsoil is sometimes brown and sometimes white. Water is scarce, none being found along the west tier of sections - A. 0. Wheeler, 1883. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.