APPENDIX 



LIEUTENANT A. R. GORDON'S REPORT ON THE HUDSON'S BAY EXPE- 

 DITION, WITH SOME COMMENTS THEREON. 



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INGE the foregoing volume was completed, Lieutenant A. R. 

 Gordon, who commanded the Canadian Government Expe- 

 dition to Hudson's Bay, has made his report ; or rather, the 

 report has been laid before Parliament included with that 

 of the Honourable the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. It con- 

 tains a summary of the acts and experiences of the Expedition, 

 arranged under the following heads: (1) Narrative, (2) Navigation, 

 (3) Resources of the Region, (4) Trade, (5) Natural History, Inhabi- 

 tants, and Fauna, and (6) Proposed Work for this Year. Appendix 

 A contains the Report of Professor Bell, M.D., F.G.S., and Appendix 

 B contains Observations at Ungava Bay by Mr. L. M. Turner, of the 

 United States Signal Service. 



The narrative portion of the Report recounts the progress of the 

 Expedition, which is given fully in the foregoing pages. 



Under the heading of Navigation, Lieutenant Gordon says : — 

 " The ice has been supposed hitherto to be the most formidable bar- 

 rier to the navigation of the Strait ; but its terrors disappear, to a 

 great extent, under investigation. The ice met with on the cruise 

 of the Neptune may be divided into three classes — having distinctly 

 separate origins. They are : — Icebergs from the glaciers of Fox 

 Channel, and heavy Arctic field-ice from the Channel itself, and 

 what may be called ordinary field-ice, being that which had been 

 formed on the shores of the Bay and Strait. The icebergs seen in 

 Hudson Strait in August and September would form no greater 



