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13. Area between Severn and Attawapishkac rivers and the coast 

 of Hudson Bay, 22,000 square miles, or larger than Nova Scotia. 

 Several lakes and rivers are shown upon the maps in this region in 

 practically identical form since Arrowsmith's map of 1850, but I have 

 been unable to ascertain the origin of the information. 



14. Area between Trout Lake, Lac Seul and the Albany River, 

 15,000 square miles, or about half the size of Scotland. 



15. Area to the south and east of James Bay, 35,000 square miles? 

 which also may be compared to the area of Portugal. This region is 

 the neai'est of those which still remain unexplored to large centres of 

 population. It is probable that much of it consists of low land which 

 may afford merchantable timber. 



16. Area comprising almost the entire interior of (the Labrador 

 peninsula or North-east Territory, 289,000 square miles. This is more 

 than equal to twice the area of Great Britain and Ireland, with an 

 added area equal to that of Newfoundland. Several lines of exploration 

 and survey have been carried for a certain distance into the interior of 

 this great peninsula, among which may be mentioned those of Professor 

 Hind, Mr. A. P. Low and Mr. R. F.Holme.* The limits of the unexplored 

 area have been drawn so as to exclude all these. The area regarded as 

 still unexplored has, however, it is true, been traversed in several 

 directions at different times by officers of the Hudson Bay Company, 

 particularly on routes leading from the vicinity of Mingan on the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence to the head of Hamilton Inlet, and thence to Ungava 

 Bay. These routes have also, according to Mr. Holme, been travelled 

 by a missionary, Pere Lacasse ; but the only published information 

 which I have been able to find is contained in a book written by J. 

 M'Leamf and in a brief account of a journey by Rev. E. J. Peck. J Mr. 

 M'Lean made several journeys and established trading posts between 

 Unsuva and Hamilton Inlet in the vears 1838-1841, while Mr. Peck 



*Explorations in Labrador, 1863, Annual Report Geol. Surv. Can., 1887-88» 

 Part J. Proo. Royal Geog. Soc, 1838. Ott. Nat. Vol. IV. 



tNotes of a twenty-five years' service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. London* 

 1849. 



JChurch Missionary Intelligencer, June 1886. Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc, 1S87, 

 p. 192. 



