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which promises to be of very considerable importance on 

 account of the immense mineral deposits which he has 

 discovered there. Mr. Low is a graduate of McGill Uni- 

 versity, and obtained his geological training under Sir 

 William Dawson. We are glad to be able to present a 

 brief account of his most successful expedition and of the 

 chief scientific results of his survey 



Mr. A. P. Low and Mi-. T. J). V. Eaton left Ottawa in 

 June, 1893, with instructions, from I)r. Selwyn of the Geo- 

 logical Survey Department, to explore the head waters of 

 the East Main River, then to cross to the head of the 

 Koksoak Eiver and descend it to Ungava Bay, where the 

 party might winter if the conditions proved suitable. The 

 season of 1894 was tc be spent in an exploration of the 

 Hamilton River, which flows eastward from the watershed 

 into Hamilton Inlet on the Atlantic coast. 



Having procured the services of four young Indians for 

 the whole trip and eight others to assist in transporting 

 the provisions as far as Lake Mistassini, the party left 

 Lake St. John on the 17th June and proceeded by way of 

 the Ashouapmouchouan and Chef rivers to the height of 

 land, and thence by the Perch River into the southern end 

 of Lake Mistassini arriving at the Hudson Bay Post there 

 on the 2nd July. From here only three canoes were used, 

 and an old Indian engaged as guide, who subsequently 

 proved quite useless in that capacity, as he had entirely 

 forgotten the route to Nichicoon, which place he had not 

 visited since his boyhood. After passing up Lake Mistis- 

 sini sixty miles to the Rupert River, the north channel of 

 this stream was descended some fifty miles, and then a 

 portage route through a number of small lakes was followed 

 to the East Main River, fifty miles farther northward. 

 The East Main was then ascended one hundred and fifty 

 miles to where the route to the Hudson Bay Post of Mchi- 

 coon branches off from the main river. The route follows 

 a small branch called Long Portage Creek, for sixty miles, 

 to a number of large lakes discharging their waters into 

 this and other small branches of the river. 



