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latitude 68° 30' north, and longitude 128° west) was the 

 principal point of investigation. It was situated on the 

 right bank of the Anderson River, first visited by me in 

 1857. The Anderson River, which disembogues itself into 



FORT ANDERSON. 



* In the month of March, 1865, the Reverend Emile Petitot, at 

 that time PSre of the Order of Mary Immaculate of the Good Hope, 

 Mackenzie River Roman Catholic Mission, paid a visit to Fort 

 Anderson, and while there made an excellent winter sketch (sub- 

 sequently painted in water colours) of the establishment. I for- 

 warded the latter to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington 

 and Professor Baird had it reproduced in, I think. Prank Leslie's 

 Weekly (1865 or 1867), with some relative information. It was 

 on a much larger scale than this sketch copied from AbbS Petitot's 

 " Les Grands Esquimaux." 



The spruce poles seen in the sketch, with their attached 

 branches, and sunk to the bottom of the river through holes made 

 in the ice soon after it set fast, formed a barrier from bank to 

 bank, with an open space near the centre, in which a net was 

 placed, and by means of which quite a large number of whitefish 

 and other fish were annually secured in course of the two or three 

 weeks " run." The other marking on the ice is that of a dog meat- 

 hauling and Indian winter track to the country lying across the 

 Anderson River to the west of the fort. 



