Extracts from reports on the district of Ungava, recently added to the province of Quebec under the name of the territory of New Quebec . to Cape \Volsten-holme, I 170 miles, and from this latter point to the head of James Bav, 1:^80miles. The present compilation of information relates exclusively to the new terri-tory added, which forms the Northern part of what has been called, for conven-ience, the Labrador peninsula. This new territory lies almost entirely North ofthe 53d parallel of latitude. It may be mentioned that this latitude is very nearlythat of the city of Liverpool, England. .\ g
Extracts from reports on the district of Ungava, recently added to the province of Quebec under the name of the territory of New Quebec . to Cape \Volsten-holme, I 170 miles, and from this latter point to the head of James Bav, 1:^80miles. The present compilation of information relates exclusively to the new terri-tory added, which forms the Northern part of what has been called, for conven-ience, the Labrador peninsula. This new territory lies almost entirely North ofthe 53d parallel of latitude. It may be mentioned that this latitude is very nearlythat of the city of Liverpool, England. .\ great deal of inlormatimi, resulting from \;irinus explorations, has beenpublished concerning Ingava territory or New Quebec, but it is scatteredthroughout various reports which can only be found together in libraries andmany of which arc out of print. The object of the present report is to afford easyreference to the more important information which has been published. .A biblio-graphy of the sources of information has been added, as well as of reports whichhave not been drawn upon in the compilation of the extracts \\liich BIBLIOGRAPHY, UNGAVA TERRITORY 5 WATER-POWERS The interior of Ungava or New Quebec is a huge plateau which rises some-what abruptly within a few miles of the coast line to heights of 500 to 2,500 various streams, therefore, afford numerous water-powers, more especiallywhere they leave the interior plateau to flow through the strip of low lands, a fewmiles wide immediately adjoining the coast. For instance, on Great Whale river,within 20 miles of the mouth, thre are three falls 150 feet, 230 feet and 65 feet res-pectively. On the South branch of this same river, a few miles from its mouth,a fall of the river gives 136 feet. Nastapoka Falls near the coast has falls 170feet. Near Richmond Gulf, the \Vyachuan River falls give a head of 315 remarkable case of very high water-falls in the interior is that of the HamiltonRiver. The Grand Fa
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