GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT 



a weight of four or five pounds, but in America 

 the specimens rarely exceed one and one-half 

 pounds. They are much like the small salmon 

 in character and habits, but are more slender, 

 graceful and active. They differ especially in 

 the structure of the skull, for the head is short, 

 the mouth small and the eyes very prominent, 

 while their scales and dorsal fin are much larger. 

 The three American species, Arctic, Michigan 

 and Montana, which are about eighteen inches 

 in length, are fine game fish and their flesh is a 

 great delicacy. The American grayling is not 

 widely distributed, for it is found only in 

 the geographical sections which give the names 

 to the three species. 



GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT, awstra'Kcm 

 bite, a bay of the Indian Ocean indenting the 

 south coast of the continent of Australia. Its 

 boundaries are not clearly defined, but it ex- 

 tends almost the entire length of the coast, 

 sweeping northward from Tasmania along the 

 coasts of Victoria and South Australia, to the 

 most southerly point of West Australia. 

 Numerous bays and gulfs indent the shores of 

 Victoria and South Australia, but on the south 

 of West Australia there are few bays and no 

 natural harbors of any importance. The only 

 large river flowing into the bight is the Murray, 

 which carries with it the waters of the Darling 

 and other tributaries. 



GREAT BEAR LAKE, a large lake in the 

 basin of the Mackenzie River, in Northwest 

 Canada, so called because it lies partly within 

 the Arctic Circle, beneath the constellation 

 Great Bear. It is about 250 miles east of the 

 Rocky Mountains, on low-lying land, the bot- 

 tom of the lake being below the level of the 

 Arctic Ocean. It has a very irregular outline 

 and covers an area of 11,821 square miles, 

 making it nearly as large as the state of 



GREAT BRITAIN 



Maryland, and more than one-half as large as 

 the province of Nova Scotia. The water is 

 very deep, and singularly clear and cold. Fish 

 of man}' kinds abound, especially the herring- 

 salmon. For more than half the year the lake 



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GREAT BEAR 



LAKE 



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BRITISH 



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LOCATION MAP 



is frozen. Fur-bearing animals are trapped in 

 great numbers along its shores. The lake is 

 fed by numerous rivers, the most important 

 being the Dease, and is drained by the Great 

 Bear River, which flows into the Mackenzie. 

 In 1825 the second expedition of Sir John 

 Franklin wintered on the shores of the lake and 

 erected a fort named Fort Franklin, which was 

 afterwards occupied as a trading post of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company. 



THE STORY OF GREAT BRITAIN I 



~ ILIIHIUM 



IREAT BRITAIN, brif'n, the larg- 

 est island of Europe, and the most important 

 island in the world. This "right little, tight 

 little island," as its inhabitants affectionately 

 call it, has acquired through the centuries an 

 influence which reaches around the world. It 

 is impossible even to imagine what the history 



of North America, of South Africa, of India, 

 of Egypt would have been had it not been 

 for the part in their history that has been 

 taken by Great Britain. 



What the Name Means. The name, in its 

 Latin form, Britannia Major, is an old one, 

 used to distinguish the island, dimly visible 



