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KORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



txo. 27. 



On June IT, below Fort Xorman, a small quantity of snow fell. On 

 June 21. at Fort Good Flope, the leaves on most of the trees were 

 about half grown. On the same date the sun was visible at midnight 

 from a low hill near the post, and many birds were in full song at 

 that hour. Fcr the next three weeks, north of this point, the sun was 

 continually above the horizon. Vegetation now advanced rather 

 faster than our rate of travel northward, but was not at its height 

 when we raached the delta of the ^Mackenzie on June 30. 



Fig. 3. — VaUey of small stream filled witli ice which has persisted until late. Athabaska 

 River below Fort Maclvay, May 29, 1903. 



THE BASIN" OF GREAT BEAR LAKE. 



A short account of Great Bear Lake may l^egin with a portion of 

 the description by Richardson, who examined most of its shore line 

 in 1825 and 1826. He says: 



Great Bear Lake is an extensive slieet of water, of a very irregular sliape, 

 being formed bv the union of five arms or bays in a common center. The great- 

 est diameter of tlie lal^e, measuring about one liundred and fifty geographical 

 miles, runs from the bottom of Dease Bay. which receives the principal feeding 



