IO ONE OF CANADA S EXPLORERS. 



branch of the Noddaway had no recognized name, and by 

 common consent it has been called Bell River, in honor of the 

 man who first called attention to its existence and made an in- 

 strumental survey of its entire course. In connection with this 

 work, he also surveyed a chain of lakes from the Waswanipi 

 to the Rupert River, and mapped out the whole of this great 

 region heretofore a blank. 



The other principal rivers mentioned as flowing into James' 

 Bay are the Moose and its larger branches (Mattagami, Missi- 

 naibi, etc.), the Albany to its source and its branches (Kena- 

 gami, Kabinakagami, Ogoke, etc.), the Attawapiskat — the next 

 river north of the Albany, 400 miles long and as large as the 

 Rhine. 



Further north he has done the Hayes, Steel and Hill rivers, 

 Oxford Lake, Knee Lake, etc , as well as the whole of the Nel- 

 son — one of the great rivers of the world — which drains the 

 continent west to the Rocky Mountains, besides some of its 

 tributary streams, also the Great and Little Churchill rivers. 



Coming back to more southern latitudes, his geological 

 work comprises the Ottawa River from its mouth to its ex- 

 treme source, including surveys of the Gatineau, the Upper 

 Ottawa and some of the streams east of Lake Temiscaming, 

 the Montreal River and the country to the north and south of 

 it, the country north of Lake Huron to the watershed, Lake 

 Nipissing and Mattawa River, the French, Spanish, Missisagi 

 and White rivers to their sources : Blind, Thessalon and Gar- 

 den rivers, also Lake Temagami, Lady Evelyn and surround- 

 ing lakes ; Temagami and Sturgeon rivers ; and all the geo- 

 graphical as well as geological features in the Sudbury mining 

 district. He had visited every square mile of the several 

 islands of the Manitoulin chain before any township surveys 

 had been made or a single settler had gone there. His purely 

 geological labors comprise the western or lake peninsula of 

 Ontario, while on the north side of Lake Superior, besides 

 the geological work, he surveyed nearly all the rivers, Nipigon 



