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map. # By a proportionate reduction of the dis- 

 tance between Slave River and Thelew-ey-aze- 

 yeth, and from the latter to Churchill, we fix 

 the required longitude at 106°. The position of 

 Thelew-ey-aze-yeth is important as forming the 

 junction of three branches of Hearne's route; and 

 if we have correctly established it, that traveller 

 must have passed over or near Artillery Lake in 

 his journey north wards, which is probably his Pee- 

 shew, or Cat Lake. The Thlew-ee-choh, which 

 he crossed about midway between that lake and 

 Congecathewachaga, is evidently not the branch 

 of that river which originates in Sussex Lake, 

 but a stream which flows in from the north- 

 ward, most likely into the Anatessy branch. 



"The course of Thelew-ey-aze, or Little Fish 

 River, is a matter of considerable interest, but 

 we can derive no positive information respect- 

 ing its debouchure from Hearne's map. If he cal- 

 culated his distances on the same scale in his first 

 journey as he did afterwards, which is likely, 

 even though he had the assistance of a better 

 instrument on that occasion, the chain of lakes 

 which he lays down as far to the northward as 

 Chesterfield's Inlet, will reach but little beyond 

 Knap's Bay, and the nature of the country can 



* As this reduction applies only to one of the branches of 

 Hearne's route, it would be safer for the present to let this 

 place keep the latitude he gives to it, viz. 61° 15' N. 



