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From the moutli of the Chiiivliill 1 started in a l)<»al with my own 

 men to examine the coast of lliidson's Hay northward, but eircum- 

 stanees soon oltliiied me to return. Tlie Hudson's Ba}' Company's ship ship from 

 from London arrived the same (hiy that I returned to the mouth of the ^"*^'*"* 

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

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

 made an approximate survey of the surrounding region. 



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

 accompanied me from Xorway House, proceeded in the same ^"^^^1 A<!ccnd the 

 canoes to ascend the Nelson River to the point which had been reached Nelson River, 

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

 very ditHcult 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 River enters the Nelson ( J ra.«.s River. 

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

 both in 1878 and 18*79, 1 determined to ascend the Grass River, 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 throue^h the thruuifh Ross' 

 eastern part of Ross' 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 River, observations were taken observations. 

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

 of jihotographs were obtained. 



On reaching Norwa}' House again, I found that Mr. Cochrane had 

 returned only a da}' or two in advance of myself, and as soon as we 

 could get ready we set out for Manitoba in the same Y'ork boat in Munitoim. 

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

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

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

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

 occasion from this place to the mouth of Red River, and a sketch LakeVinnipeg 

 of its outline taken. 



"When in Manitoba, it w^as my intention to have made a geological 

 examination of the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway eastward from 

 Red River to Rat Portage, but it was not found practicable to do so, 



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

 reached on the 11th of November. 



