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of great utility on the shallower beds of 

 this inland sea. 



Turning to the south we enter Hudson 

 Bay, a land-locked and, until June, an 

 icebound sea of vast extent. Half a 

 million square miles of shallow water 

 three times the size of the North Sea of 

 an average depth of only 70 fathoms ; in 

 this almost unexplored region there should 

 be untold wealth of cold-water fish 

 haddock, cod-fish, sturgeon and salmon, 

 for we must not forget that ideal conditions 

 for life in the sea are exactly opposite from 

 those prevailing on the land. In the 

 colder climate, conditions for fish life are 

 better, and the quantities increase, the 

 amount of plankton is greater, hence the 

 presence of whales in these Arctic regions. 

 Hudson Bay will have a great advantage 

 over other northern seas, inasmuch as 

 with the opening up of Northern Ontario, 

 railways will reach the southern coast of 

 Hudson Bay and carry off its products 

 to the 50,000,000 inhabitants of Eastern 

 United States, only about 700 miles 

 away. Little did its discoverer, Hudson 

 (of whom nothing is known except that 



