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Archibald McLean, the younger son of the old trader and traveller 

 whose career I have briefly outlined. 



In substance these are almost identical with the printed volumes 

 entitled "Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson Bay Territory." 



I have written these notes on the discoverer of the Great Falls of 

 Labrador, both as a personal tribute of respect to an old friend, and as a 

 public duty in memory of one who spent a quarter of a century in 

 Canada, before many of us were born — whose treatment of the natives 

 was invariably humane — whose intimate knowledge of the interior stood 

 us in good stead at a time when it was most required, — whose services to 

 his employers may be regarded as of national importance — who first 

 made known to us the existence of one of the world's highest cataracts 

 — who, as an author, has given us two of the most interesting and instruc- 

 tive books of travel and adventure in North America — who is said to 

 figure as one of the characters in Ballantyne's "Ungava," and who after 

 more than seventy years' residence in this country, passed away to 

 "where the weary are at rest," having lived not only a long, but an 

 •active and a useful life. 



