CHURCHILL AND NELSON RIVERS. 3 C 



From the mouth of the Churchill I started in a boat with my own 

 men to examine the coast of Hudson's Bay northward, but circum- 

 stances soon obliged me to return. The Hudson's Bay Company's ship ship from 

 from London arrived the same day that I returned to the mouth of the on on ' 

 river, and the captain kindly agreed to give a passage to myself and 

 men to York Factory. While the ship was lying at Fort Churchill, I 

 made an approximate survey of the surrounding region. 



At York Factory I obtained some provisions, and, with the men who 

 accompanied me from Norway House, proceeded in the same smali Ascend the 

 canoes to ascend the Nelson Eiver to the point which had been reached Nelson River. 

 when en route for Churchill. The river above the first rapids proved 

 very difficult to ascend and the journey occupied a longer time than I 

 had expected, but with the aid of the game and fish which we obtained 

 we managed to subsist. 



A short distance above Split Lake, the Grass Eiver enters the Nelson Grass River. 

 on the west side. Having already explored the Nelson above this point 

 both in 1878 and 18*79, I determined to ascend the Grass Eiver, and 

 from one of its branches I again reached the Nelson at the foot of Sipi- 

 wesk Lake. I next made a track-survey of the north-western channels other surveys, 

 and arms of this lake, and then of the channels to and from Duck Lake, 

 as well as of the latter lake itself. 



In going up from Pipestone Lake to Norway House I surveyed a 

 small channel of the Nelson, which runs for some miles through the through Ross' 

 eastern part of Eoss' Island, of which both sides were mapped in 1878, 

 and the island found to be over fifty miles in length. In the course 

 of these explorations along the Nelson Eiver, observations were taken observations. 

 for latitude, longitude and the variation of the compass, and a number 1 

 of photographs were obtained. 



On reaching Norway House again, I found that Mr. Cochrane had 

 returned only a day or two in advance of myself, and as soon as we 

 could get ready we set out for Manitoba in the same York boat in Manitoba. 

 which we had come. The season proving very stormy with head- 

 winds, we were three weeks in reaching Lower Fort Garry. Having 

 made a track-survey in 1878 of the west side of Lake Winnipeg from 

 the Doer's Head southward, the east side was followed on the present Sketch of part 



„ , . ■, , , r. 't. i -r>> i i j. i of East shore of 



occasion from this place to the mouth of Eed Eiver, and a sketch Lake Winnipeg 

 of its outline taken. 



When in Manitoba, it was my intention to have made a geological 

 examination of the line of the Canadian Pacific Eailway eastward from 

 Eed Eiver to Eat Portage, but it was not found practicable to do so, „ 



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and as the season was well advanced I returned to Montreal, which I Montreal. 

 reached on the 11th of November. 



