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map shown in the accompanying cut (Map No. 4), and this sketch has^ 
formed the original for all published maps of the lakes, from Loggie’s 
of that year down to the present. The Geological Survey map has, 
however, certain additions at the western end, of which I do not know 
the origin, and which are incorrect. In 1890 Mr. W. J. Long and 
Dr. Philip Cox ascended the river with Indian guides and spent 
several weeks upon the Big Lake, and it was there that Mr. Long 
made many of the observations upon animal life, which he describes 
with matchless charm in his well-known books.* Dr. Cox, however, 
has published no account of his observations. Both of these gentle- 
men made sketch-maps of the Big Lake, of which they gave us copies, 
and from which we have adopted many of the names upon our own 
accompanying map. More recently this region has been visited 
repeatedly by another charming writer, Mr. Frederic Irland, who, in 
his beautifully-illustrated articles in “Scribner’s Magazine,”! has given 
delightful, even if somewhat exuberant, accounts of his trips, though 
he has not many references to these lakes in particular. The late 
Frank Bisteen has also described in his pleasing style a trip to thia 
region. | 
These include all of the published references to these lakes which 
I have been able to find, and I believe I have missed nothing of 
importance. As to unwritten history, two points should be mentioned. 
The lakes were first lumbered about 1866 (for pine only), were later 
* Wilderness Ways ; Ways of Wood Folk ; Secrets of the Woods (Ginn & Co., Boston}; 
recently re published under the titles, Beasts of the Field ; Fowls of the Air. 
t Sport in an Untouched American Wilderness, Vol. xx, 350 ; The Coming of the Snow, 
Vol. xxvii, 87; The Beguiling of the Bears, Vol. xxx, 313. See, also, Forest and Stream, 
Feb. 1, 8, 15. 1902. 
t Forest and Stream, Dec. 22, 1894, 530. 
