SOURCE  OF   ST.  PETEr's  RIVER.
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several tributaries designated by the names of Cypress, la Souris, Mushroom, Au Milieu, Qui Appelle, &c.
The last of the tributaries of Red river is Death river, or Onfipowe Sepsi, a small stream which has received this gloomy name from the circumstance that two hundred and fifty lodges of Chippewas are said to have been destroyed there, about forty-five years since, by the Dacotas.
Red river discharges itself into Lake Winnepeek by four channels.
Lake Winnepeek receives its name from the muddy or sallow appearance of its waters; We signifies muddy, and nepŁ, water, in Chippewa. It is a large sheet of water with low marshy banks to the south and south-west. To the north-east the shore swells into broad hills, of no great elevation, which are covered with a thin growth of pine,* spruce,tv juniper,} tamarack§ or tacca-mahac, red cedar,|| white birch,1T and a sort of poplar similar to the balm of Gilead.** Among the shrubs there are rose bushes, pembina, and a bush yielding a small dark blue berry, resembling in form and colour the huckleberry, but sweeter and higher flavoured; by the French traders it is called poire; it has received the English name of service-berry; the Chippewas call it O'sakwakko mlnan.tt Lake Winnepeek is about two hundred and seventy miles long, by eighty broad in its widest, and fifteen in its narrowest part. Its general di^ rection is about north-north-west. Its shore is much indented. We coasted it for about thirty-five miles, very near to its south-eastern extremity; proceeding from one projecting point to another, our course, which was at first a,
* Pinus alba, nigra, &c.                f Abies Canadensis, Mich.
$ Juniperus communis.                  § Laryx Americana, Mich.
1 Juniperus Virginiana, Mich.       "J Betula papyracea.
** Populus balsamifera.                 ff Mespilus arborea, Mich.