The Labrador Peninsula 



head of the Northwest River, and which is 

 second in size only to Lake Mistassini. In 

 August we proceeded southward by way of the 

 Romaine and St. John rivers, and reached the 

 mouth of the latter at the end of the month, 

 after an absence of sixteen months from civili- 

 zation. 



In 1895 I spent two months in exploring 

 the country about the central area on the 

 headwaters of the Manicougan River that 

 flows into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Big 

 River of Hudson Bay and the Koksoak of 

 L^ngava Bay. Last summer I made a trip 

 across the northern part of the peninsula from 

 Richmond Gulf on Hudson Bay to the mouth 

 of the Koksoak River. 



The results of the past five years explora- 

 tions in conjunction with the previous work 

 done in Labrador are sufficient to give a gen- 

 eral idea of the physical features and natural 

 resources of the peninsula; and there only 

 remains an area of about 100,000 square miles 

 in the northwestern part totally unknown, but 

 even this will be partly explored during the 

 coming summer (1897) by the expedition to 

 be sent out in May to Hudson Strait and thence 

 to work southward. 



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