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are determined to go in preference to Port Dalrymple, which place to my great astonishment I found not fixed as to its head Quarters, so unwisely has the management been with respect to that dependency. I find that Yorkton is the most unfit place they could have gone to, and must be changed; but as all information respecting it is very imperfect, I am now waiting for the Surveyor General's Report who will I hope return in the course of a Week. Coll. Paterson has described the Country to be the finest he ever saw, but says a general frost more or less prevails the whole Year, and injures the Grains so much that the few Settlers he has had are dissatisfied. I attribute it to their not knowing the season for tilling the ground, and as to the Frost during the summer I think there must be some error in the representation. If it had not been for the uncontrollable temper of Capt Short I should have touched at the settlements coming out and fixed every thing as it should have been; but it was impossible to enter on service with him, and