New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . a which has the MackenzieRiver fcr its waterway. The whole courseof the Mackenzie and its afHuents is throughfertile land covered with forests. This riverand its connections supply thousands of milesof navigable waters and innneasurable waterpower, all of which Avill some day be tiuuedto eflective use as the population Mackenzie itself is navigable for 1,300miles, and trees a foot in diameter are foundgrowing at the delta of the river; gardenvegetables thrive at the trading posts scat-tered here and there along its
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . a which has the MackenzieRiver fcr its waterway. The whole courseof the Mackenzie and its afHuents is throughfertile land covered with forests. This riverand its connections supply thousands of milesof navigable waters and innneasurable waterpower, all of which Avill some day be tiuuedto eflective use as the population Mackenzie itself is navigable for 1,300miles, and trees a foot in diameter are foundgrowing at the delta of the river; gardenvegetables thrive at the trading posts scat-tered here and there along its course. Thenortheastern part of Saskatchewan and thepart of the North-West Territory west ofHudson Bay are chiefly level, treeless plains,a swampy expanse of rock, lake, and region is known as The Barren Lands,the home of the musk-ox, the reindeer, andall kinds of waterfowl. Besides these three .systems ofcontinental drainage, we flndseveral minor sys-tems. Yukon District is drained by the YukonRiver into Bering Sea. The southern parts of. An Irrig£^OD Canal. 42 DOMINION OF CANADA. British Columbia are drained southward by theCokimbia and the Fraser. The coast has shortrapid streams that enter the hundreds of long,narrow lja}-s. Mew Brunswick and Nova Scotia,on the other side of the continent, are drainedinto the Atlantic waters by small rivers. What otlier great river riseseoutk of the Atbabaska 1 To•which drainage system doesit belong 1 What river hasits source north of theAthabaska? Notice itstwo branches in BritishColumbia, and see how-it cuts through the moun-tains, forming a water-gap. MTiat branch has thePeace from Alberta 1 Doesit cut a water-gap throughthe Rocky Mountains? Learnthe names of other passes inthese mountains. What isthe general direction of theAthabaska? Of the Peace?WTiere does each empty?What river drains LakeAthabaska? What is theJiext great lake ? NMiat riverdrains Great Slave Lake? WTiat branch does that river receivefrom Brit
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