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The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition - Great Falls on Little Dog River, at Great Dog Portage, 1858. 'The Falls in the accompanying Sketch, by Mr. Fleming, assistant to Mr. Hind, lie some distance to the west of the beginning of the Great Dog Portage, one of the most formidable barriers on the canoe route between Lakes Superior and Winnipeg. The Great Dog Portage rises 468 feet above Little Dog Lake, into which the water, passing over the Falls...rushes with a wild, indescribable beauty from Great Dog Lake, north of the barrier just noticed. The difference in the level of Little and Great Dog Lakes is 347 feet, which is descended by the water of the connecting river in six successive leaps'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.