 | George Monro Grant - Canada - 1873 - 542 pages
...The third prairie steppe extends to the mountains. Each of these steppes, says Palliser, is marked by important changes in the composition of the soil, and consequently in che character of the vegetation. Our first " spell" to-day was fifteen, and our second, twenty miles,... | |
 | George Monro Grant - Canada - 1877 - 414 pages
...The third prairie steppe extends to the mountains. Each of these steppes, says Palliser, is marked by important changes in the composition of the soil,...consequently in the character of the vegetation.* * For an exceedingly clear description of the boundaries of these three steppes, and of the Western,... | |
 | Germaine Warkentin - Literary Collections - 2006 - 599 pages
...rising until it gains an altitude of 3,000 feet at the base of the mountain chain.The surface of this slope is marked by steppes, by which successive and...and consequently in the character of the vegetation. These steppes are three in number. The first may be said to spring from the southern shore of the lake... | |
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... is Lake Winnipeg, which has the same altitude above the sea level as Lake Superior, viz., 600 feet. From these lakes to the Rocky Mountains the central region may be considered as a plain gradually rising until it gains an altitude of 3,000 feet at... 