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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XI. No. 263 



Admiralty maps and a manuscript map by S. Weiz, a Moravian 

 missionary who visited the northern parts of the coast of Lab- 

 rador. The latter was published in January, 1869, in the Mzsszons- 

 blatt aus der Brudergemeinde, and we reprint it here side by side 

 with the latest British Admiralty map (No. 863, Hudson Bay and 

 Strait) for comparison. It will be seen that the geographical posi- 

 tions, as well as the coast-lines, show many discrepancies ; so much 



mark, " Large corrections : April, 1882, June, 1885," show Greely's 

 discoveries, but not the valuable work done by Danish, American. 

 German, and French explorers. The same is the case in the sheet 

 mentioned above, which was published in 1884. Evidently neither 

 Weiz's nor the British maps are founded on reliable observations. 

 Welz's route on board the schooner ' Meta ' is shown on his map, 

 and it will be seen that he did not visit the deep fiords. The 



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so, that it is impossible to compile them into one map. The posi- 

 tions of the admiralty map are comparatively correct ; but it may 

 be assumed that the outlines of the coast, and the names and posi- 

 tions of the islands, are better on Weiz's map, as he gathered his 

 information from Eskimo who are well acquainted with the coast. 

 Unfortunately the admiralty maps of these regions are not up 

 to date, and are therefore extremely deficient. The maps ' Arctic 

 Sea ' (No. 2177), for instance, the eastern sheet of which bears the 



nomenclature of the British maps is very deficient, the local names 

 of places being misspelled so as to become almost unintelligible. 

 As we find, instead of T,Jm most parts of the coast, I concluded 

 that the original is a manuscript of a German missionary, the T in 

 a German handwriting being similar to an English y. 



Besides the explorations mentioned by Packard, a considerable 

 amount of work has been done in Labrador and the adjacent parts 

 of the country. Lake Mistassini v/as explored in 1884-85 by ark 



