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From the head of Great Slave Lake to head of Chesterfield 

 Inlet, 320 miles; from the head of Athabasca Lake to the 

 harbour of Churchill, 440 miles; from Port McMurray, at the 

 junction of the Clearwater with the Athabasca, below the 70 

 miles of questionable navigation, to the following places on the 

 Saskatchewan : Prince Albert, 300 miles ; Fort Pitt, 220 miles ; 

 Victoria, 179 miles; Edmonton, 225 miles; from Calgary, on 

 the Canadian Pacific Eailway, to Athabasca Landing, on the 

 Athabasca Elver, 250 miles; from head of Little Slave Lake 

 to Peace Eiver Landing in the Peace Eiver, 65 miles; from 

 Hazelton, on the Skeena Eiver, to Peace Eiver in the Pass, 

 150 miles; from Fort Mumford, on the Stikeen Eiver, to Fort 

 Liard on the Liard Eiver, 370 miles. 



A good deal of difficulty has been experienced by the Com- 

 mittee in endeavoring to obtain the exact catch of furs in the 

 region under consideration, and no definite or direct information 

 has been obtained; they have, however, obtained lists of furs 

 offered for sale in 1887, in London, by the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany and C. M. Lampson & Co., the consignee of many of the 

 furs of British ISTorth America, and from these lists they find 

 the following to be a sununary of one year's catch : — 



Otter 14,439 



Fisher 7,192 



Fox (silver) 1,967 



Fox (cross) 6,785 



Fox (red) 85,022 



Fox (white) 10,257 



Fox (blue) 1,440 



Fox (kitt) 290 



Lynx 14,520 



Skunk 682,794 



Marten 98,342 



Mink 376,223 



Beaver 104,279 



Musquash 2,485,368 



Extra black Musquash 13,944 



Wolf 7,156 



Wolverine 1,581 



Bear (all kinds) 15,942 



Musk Ox 198 



Badger •• 3,739 



Ermine ; • 4,116 



Swan 57 



Rabbit 114.824 



Hair Seal (dry) 13,478 



Sable 3,517 



Fox (gray) ^ 31,597 



