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He further impressed upon the government the advisability of 

 placing a special appropriation in the estimates of the year for the 

 distribution of Logan's large map just received, submitting at the same 

 time a list of public institutions, libraries, etc., where the said map 

 would do a great deal of good to Canada. 



In 1870 he investigated the gold fields of Xova Scotia and prepared 

 an important report giving the result of his work there. (See " Keport 

 of Progress, Geol. Surv. Canada, 1870-71," pp. 352-82, Ottawa, 1870) 



In the following year, under special instructions from Hon. Joseph 

 Howe, he undertook an exploration in the remote province of British 

 Columbia, "on and in prosimity to the several lines which will 

 be explained by the engineering parties (of whicih Mr. Fleming, now 

 Sir Sandford Fleming, was engineer-in-chief ), and on one or the other 

 of which the future Pacific Railroad will be located." In the " Report 

 of Progress," 1871-72, is given an account of the results achieved during 

 these explorations. The route selected by Selwyn took him from Hope 

 on the Fraser via Fort Colville, the Kootenay river and the Columbia 

 to the Howse pass, and afi'orded facilities for returning later by wagon 

 road, 378 miles, from Cariboo to Yale. Not only the coal fields, gold 

 fields and other occurrences of economic value, but timber, soil, water 

 power, agricultural and numerous other features of special value and 

 interest were also recorded, together with systematic descriptions of the 

 various geological formations met and their relation to one another in 

 the stratigraphical seriesi, from the oldest up. 



Then, in 1872,, we find ihim journeying from Lake Superior to 

 Fort Garry (now Winnipeg) and in the " Report of Progress," 1872-73, 

 we find no less than three special reports on the silver mining localities 

 of Thunder Bay, on the geological investigations from Lake Superior 

 to Fort Garry and on the Acadia iron ore deposits. In the following 

 " Report of Progress " he gives the result of his investigations on the 

 geological exploration in the Northwest Territories from Fort Garry 

 to Rocky Mountain House. (Loc. cit., pp. 17-62). 



In the following year Dr. Selwyn remained for the most part^ of 

 the year in the office, attending to the numerous and onerous duties 

 incumbent upon him as director, and preparing for the extra work 

 imposed upon him in connection with the Canadian exhibit at the Cen- 

 tennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia. In the Report of Progress, 

 1875-76, pp. 28-31, he gives the summary of his own explorations 

 in British Columbia, and on pp. 31-69 presents his " Journal of the 

 Expedition through the Peace River Pass." On pp. 292-293 he adds an 

 important note on a boring made in 1875 on the Swan River, in the 

 'territory now within the Province of Manitoba. He also prepared a 



