. The Canadian field-naturalist. January, 1925] The Canadian Field-Naturalist 15 North. Animation was given to the scene by the constant and rather aimless travel of band after band of caribou, crossing and recrossing the river, feeding in the valley, and disappearing over the hills. ^ Perhaps the view afforded unusual gratifica- tion in being the one considerable feature of the Coppermine—^its discharge from its headwaters lake—that had never before been viewed by a white man. We built a cairn on a commanding rockj'- hill and left a record in it. There is a gap of perhaps thirty miles between
. The Canadian field-naturalist. January, 1925] The Canadian Field-Naturalist 15 North. Animation was given to the scene by the constant and rather aimless travel of band after band of caribou, crossing and recrossing the river, feeding in the valley, and disappearing over the hills. ^ Perhaps the view afforded unusual gratifica- tion in being the one considerable feature of the Coppermine—^its discharge from its headwaters lake—that had never before been viewed by a white man. We built a cairn on a commanding rockj'- hill and left a record in it. There is a gap of perhaps thirty miles between this point and Franklin's farthest upstream exploration of the Coppermine at Lake Providence. Time did not permit of an investigation of this stretch, as we proposed on the return to attempt to work our way to the north or northeast into the musk-ox country. Returning by the north shore, each stream and connected water was examined, to complete the exploration of the Coppermine headwaters and in order to find a route to the north if such All the features of the map of this coast, the north bay, Lake Paul, Lac du Savage and the stream flowing into it (considered to be the Upper Copper- mine), proved to have been much exaggerated, and a high rough range enclosing the lake on the north precluded the possibility of a water route in this direction. A return was therefore made to Outram River and the exploration continued west- ward to Lake MacKay. We. had not proceeded far from the point from which the Coppermine route branches off when the hills closed in, and we were confronted by a formid- able cascade with over fifty feet of a fall, which disproved our assumed Lake MacKay. Above the cascade the hills fell away on either side, and the country has the appearance of a series of shallow ridges. Through this plain the river meanders, here deflected by the ridges and else- where enclosed by them to form shallow lakes of irregular shape with rapids where they discharge.
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