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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 12 , 1908. 
In 1783 Long sailed from Quebec to London, 
but soon returned to the New World to engage 
in trading with the Indians. Unfortunately he 
arrived too late in the season, and his venture 
was a total failure. In 1785 he went to New 
York where, through interpreting for some In¬ 
dians, he became known to various well-known 
people, and finally received credit from a mer¬ 
cantile house for a cargo of goods for the 
Indian trade. He spent some little time trading 
with the Oneida Indians, not far from Fort 
Stanwix, and then went on to 
Fort Oswego where all his 
goods were seized and confis¬ 
cated by the customs authori¬ 
ties. From this time on Long’s 
fortune was evil, and in 1787, 
having received assistance from 
a friend, he “determined to 
leave the country while I had 
money in my pocket.” He, 
therefore, again set sail for 
England and reached London in 
the beginning of December of 
that year. 
The book of which I have 
been writing is full of infor¬ 
mation, full of quaint sayings 
and with a liberal sprinkling of 
misinformation. It is dedicated 
to Sir Joseph Banks, president 
of the Royal Society, and the 
first sentence of the dedication 
is perhaps worth quoting. The 
author says: “Sir—I feel the 
highest satisfaction in being per¬ 
mitted to dedicate this work to 
one whose pursuits have been 
more peculiarly directed to ob¬ 
jects of originality, and whose 
scientific researches have con¬ 
tributed so largely to the in¬ 
formation and benefit of so¬ 
ciety.” 
Perhaps Long’s book may 
have brought him more money, 
as it certainly brought him 
more fame than did his trading 
operations, for in the front of 
the volume are four pages giv¬ 
ing a list of subscribers to the 
work, about two hundred in 
all. 
New York State’s Water Supply. 
The investigation conducted by representa¬ 
tives of the Division of Sanitary Engineering 
of the New York Sanitary Department of 
Health of the sanitary condition of watersheds 
protected by special rules formulated by the de¬ 
partment has been made public. There was 
conducted during the summer an investigation 
of public water supplies unprotected by special 
water rules or by filtration plants. Representa¬ 
tives visited about forty such watersheds. 
The purpose of the investigation was to de¬ 
termine exactly the status of conditions and to 
determine the advisability of formulating rules 
for the protection of watersheds and to recom¬ 
mend improvements in local conditions. Special 
attention was paid to the watersheds, concern¬ 
ing which complaints had been made from time 
to time to the department. 
Recent Publications. 
The Northwest Passage, by Roald Amundsen. 
Two large volumes, cloth, 730 pages, 140 
illustrations from photographs, and with 
maps, $8 net. New York, E. P. Dutton & 
Co. 
Starting from Christiania on June 16, 1903, 
Captain Amundsen and his little company of 
intrepid navigators and scientists, sailed the 
stout little auxiliary sloop Gjoa westward, 
rounded Cape Farewell, Greenland, and turning 
northward, navigated Davis Strait to Baffin Bay, 
putting into Wolstenholme Sound, their furthest 
point north, on Aug. 17. Turning southwest- 
ward, Captain Amundsen passed through Lan¬ 
caster Sound and Barrow Strait, then steering 
south, threaded the passages of Franklin and 
Ross straits and went into winter quarters at 
Gjoahavn, King William Land, on Sept. 12. 
There the party remained until Aug. 13, 1905, 
making meteorological observations, collecting, 
hunting, fishing and exploring the east coast 
of Victoria Land. 
Through Simpson Strait the Gjoa sounded 
continuously, so rocky was the bottom of this 
uncharted and narrow waterway. Passing 
westward, the ship’s compass again became ac¬ 
tive after its long sleep within a few miles of 
Ross’ magnetic pole, and on the 26th of August, 
the fact that the little Gjoa had actually nego¬ 
tiated the Northwest Passage was proved when 
the lookout excitedly announced that a vessel 
was in sight. This proved to be the whaling 
schooner Charles Hanson, of San Francisco. 
On the 3d of September the Gjoa was blocked 
by ice, and off the beach at King Point, a short 
distance west of the mouth of the Mackenzie 
River, the crew began its third winter. On July 
to, 1906, a start was made, and after numerous 
delays Nome, Alaska, was reached on Aug. 31, 
and the voyage ended. 
As a scientific treatise this 
work is extremely valuable, 
while the narrative, although 
of course a plain record of 
the long voyage, is by no 
means dull. Captain Amund¬ 
sen’s choice of companions and 
crew was a happy one, and he 
refers often to their acts of 
heroism and their methods of 
passing the long months of 
waiting in the north. A part 
of the narrative relates to Cap¬ 
tain Amundsen’s sledge journey 
from Herschel Island to Eagle 
City and return, and in a sup¬ 
plement to the second volume 
Lieut. Hansen gives the details 
of his three expeditions to and 
the charting of hitherto un¬ 
known lands in the north. 
Thomas Ken and Izaak Wal¬ 
ton, by E. Marston. Cloth, 
illustrated, 220 pages, $2 
net. New York, Longmans, 
Green & Co. 
This is a sketch of the lives 
and family connections of Izaak 
Walton, Thomas Ken, Bishop of 1 
Bath and Wells, and George 
Morley, Bishop of Winchester. 
It may also be said to be a re- * 
view of all that has been pub¬ 
lished bearing on the life of j 
Walton, his pastime, his books 
and his occupation. Of this 
there is no data that is authen- | 
tic. Mr. Marston explains the i 
fact that in Walton’s applica¬ 
tion for a license to marry 
Rachiell Floud he described 
himself as of “the Cittie of 
London Ironmonger, a bacheller of the age of 
32 years or thereabouts” by saying: 
“Although members of a company like the 
ironmongers are not necessarily all ironmon¬ 
gers, just as members of the Stationers’ Com- I 
pany are not all stationers, yet as a matter of j 
fact most of them are stationers or ironmon- jj 
gers; and the evidence that Walton was a semp- 
ster or haberdasher is by no means so abund- j 
antly clear as to nullify the suggestion that after |;l 
all Walton was an ironmonger and not a semp- | 
ster. If Walton was a sempster, there does not | 
seem to be any reason why he should not have 
said so in his marriage license.” 
But he gives, in a footnote, the statement of 
the master of the Ironmongers’ Company, who 
says: “There is nothing in the records of the II 
Ironmongers’ Company or Walton’s marriage 
license to disturb the received tradition that he | 
was a sempster or haberdasher.” 
CHIEF MOUNTAIN. 
In the proposed Glacier National Park. 
