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board in the summer if he needs exercisji, but he will always prefer 
to walk for comfort, at least after he has given this particular brand 
of exercise a very brief trial. Since 1904 1 have made more than a 
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dozen trips up various rivers A into the interior; of these all but two 
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were made by canoe; a«d-bet^-of^th«se lumber road trips w&re made during 
the past summer (1923). 
The interior of the peninsula is but little known,and the Canadian 
government has no^ maps of the graater part of it. On £heir 
best maps large areas, often only 12 miles from the shore and occasionally 
only 6, are marked "unexplored". These great areas are, except for 
the rivers that are lumbered, generally left, entirely blank on the map. 
The small villages along the shore are inhabited ma inl y by french 
catholics, with a mixture of Scotch and Irish in some localities. 
Everybody speaks the characteristic french-Canadian patois, and few 
understand or speak English, or even pure Parisian french. 
Geological and geographical explorations into the interior of the 
peninsula have bean limited in scope, as well as few and far between. 
The principal explorations have been by Logan in 1844, Bichardson in 
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1857, Low in 1882-4, and Coleman in 1918. Colemans report was very 
recently ptolished (i.e., 1922). 
An extremely interesting feature, clearly demonstrated and specially 
emphasized in Coleman’s report published in 1822, is the fact that all 
of the high summits of the Shickshock Mts. ave entirely unglaciated— 
a fact that we knew from our work of nearly 20 years ago, but as we 
were not geologists our word was of little value until backed up by the 
observations of trained geologists. According to Coleman glacial geolo¬ 
gists are now convinced that the great Labrador ice sheet never got 
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