"The Saskatchewan or 'the river that runs swift' is truly well named, for even upon the smoothest and deepest parts of the river, long lines of bubbles and foam, ever speeding swiftly and noiselessly by, serve to indicate the velocity with which this mighty artery courses unceasingly onward, swelling as it goes, with the gatherings of its many wide-spreading tributaries, to mingle its restless and muddy waters in the Arctic Seas."

Henry Youle Hind (1860: 444)

(see references)

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 toe of the Saskatchewan Glacier September 8, 2004