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Bukhara "i Mbtboholooicaj Observations, Laki Mi-i \--im. 







March. 



April. 











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 Mean maximum temperature 

 Mean minimum temperature 

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Snow covers the ground about the middle of October, and remains 

 until Late in May. all the smaller lakes being frozen over during that 

 i ime. 



The main body of Lake Mistassini is an exception, as owing to its 

 depth and consequent slow change of temperature, it does not generally 

 freeze over before December 20th, and opens a couple of weeks Later 

 than the other Lakes in spring. 



During the summer months the sky is clouded a greater part of the 

 time, accompanied by drizzing rains and heavy thunder storms. The 

 •Miil ut' the country overlying tin' limestone basin, on and about Lake 

 Mistassini, i- a Bandy loam with clay Bubsoil, and would yield good 

 crops in a moie favorable climate. 



On the main body of the lake, and to the northward, the summer 

 season is shorter and colder than in the vicinity of the post. During 



the month of July, the low land- bordering the lake were frozen solid 

 within one toot of the surtaee, in all places where the tree- were at all 

 dense. This marked difference is undoubtedly due to the proximity to 

 such a Large body Of Cold water, which lowers the genera] temperature 



ut' the air during the warmer portions of the year. The soil overlying 



the Laurentian gneisses and schists is light and Bandy, only a thin 

 layer generally resting on these rocks. 



At the Hudson Hay post, the most favorable point on the lake fur 



agriculture, a poor crop of potatoes i- raised yearly. They are small, 

 as the tops are always frozen before reaching maturity. In the spring, 

 a- soon a- the frost was out of the ground. I Bowed garden pea-. 

 beans, corn, and turnips. On August 20th the peas were beginning to 

 till the pod-, the beans were in flower, and the corn only eighteen 

 inches above the ground; the turnips alone were growing nicely. 1 

 believe that barley has been sown here, hut would not ripen. A full 

 list of trees and plants, with their distribution, is given in Appendix 

 (I) by Mr. Macoun. and I will only add that no timber of commercial 



value was -ecu near the lake. 



