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surveys comprise the Gaspe Peninsula from Perce to Rimouski, 

 and from the St. Lawrence to the Baie des Chaleurs, and 

 thence to Quebec, the eastern townships, the Saguenay and 

 Lake St. John region, the north shore of the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, the west coast and the interior of Newfoundland and 

 parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. He has coasted 

 all around the Labrador peninsula, from the Saguenay, via 

 Bellisle, its eastern or Atlantic coast, its northern coast, which 

 forms the south side of Hudson Strait, and its western coast, 

 which is the east side of Hudson and James' bays, besides some 

 of the islands lying far oft' this coast. Dr. Bell has computed 

 the area of the Labrador peninsula to be 560,000 square En- 

 glish statute miles, or considerably more than the combined 

 areas of Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium 

 and Holland. 



In 1S97 our friend made a survey of most of the southern 

 coast of the great Island of Baffinland, opposite to Greenland, 

 and which is only exceeded in size by this ice-covered island, 

 and by Australia — being 1,000 miles in length. Besides sur- 

 veying its southern coast, he made an exploration of the in- 

 terior, as far as the large lakes, only one of which had ever 

 before been seen by a white man. 



He has visited some of the large islands at the north end of 

 Hudson Bay, that great inland sea of our continent, which he 

 described more than twenty years ago as the Mediterranean of 

 North Ameriea. He has in different years explored and, in 

 fact, surveyed the whole east coast of Hudson Bay, except a 

 few miles in the north part, from the Strait south to the head 

 of James' Bay, also parts of the west coast of this inland sea 

 from Marble Island to Moose Factory, at its southern extrem- 

 ity. Instrumental, or, in some cases, good track-surveys have 

 been made by him of the rivers flowing into James Bay from 

 the southeast, south, southwest and west. The largest of these 

 is the Noddaway — a bigger stream than the Ottawa, and which 

 drains an area exceeding that of England. The great west 



