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'Notes on Ungava Bay and its Vicinity.' The following 

 information respecting this distant region is gleaned from 

 Mr. Davies's paper. The rivers falling into Ungava Bay 

 are the Koksoak or South Eiver, George's Eiver, Whale 

 Eiver, and a few others of minor importance. South 

 Eiver is the largest, and has its source in Lake Cania- 

 puscaw, situated on the table-land. From its source to a 

 small outpost established by the Hudson's Bay Company 

 many years ago, and called South Eiver House, a distance 

 of 250 miles, little is known of its course, as it has only 

 once been visited by the whites, and then only a part of 

 its valley was seen. It is rapid and turbulent, flowing 

 through a partially-wooded country. At South Eiver 

 House (now abandoned) it receives the Washquah Eiver, 

 which forms the route of communication between Uno:ava 

 Bay and Hamilton Inlet. From this point to the sea 

 (150 miles), the current, though strong, is less broken by 

 rapids ; it also widens very much, and ninety miles from 

 its mouth it is a mile in breadth, flowing between high 

 rocky banks thinly clothed with trees ; at its mouth it is 

 nearly a league in width. Fort Chimo is situated twenty- 

 eight miles from the sea. George's Eiver was discovered 

 by the Moravian missionaries in 1811. It was ascended 

 by Europeans in 1839 for the purpose of forming an 

 estabhshment to communicate with a band of the Nas- 

 quapees, whose hunting-grounds lie about its source. 

 For 220 miles it is a considerable stream, runnino: with a 

 rapid current between rocky banks, and, though full of 

 rapids, the water was found deep enough for the Hudson's 

 Bay Company's barges. At some distance from its mouth 

 the country is wooded ; and about 200 miles up the 



