Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-05-16
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Quebec Special to Boston Herald
the summary report is published here
to-day by the federal government of the
eNplorato survey OF the I.ow-E.aton
expedition of 1894 through the interior
of Labrador and attracts very wide at
tention, the demand for copies from far
ana near being far in excess of the sup
ply. The personal adventures of the eX-
ploring party went the rounds of the
press upon its return, some months ago,
but the details of its geographical and
other discoveries, as compulsory with
officials of the geological survey. have
been kept secret, pending their official
publication.
The expedition Travelled on foot and
by canoe about $500 miles, through Il
country containing about 100000 square
miles, which is shown by its report to
be by no means the land of Cain" that
it was formerly supposed to be. En-
cept at the scattered Hudson bay posts,
civilized men We're never met by the
explorers, and most of the territory
was traversed for the first time by
scientific explorers.
The reading of the report leaves no
doubt that outside Of Africa and the
sub-Arctic regions of this continent,
searchers after travellers adventures
can find no equal eXpanse Of virgin
territory to operate in.
The natural attractions of Labrador
are among the grandest on the conti-
nent. The UngaVa river runs through
twenty miles Of crooked valley, with
perpendicular rocky walls rising 900
feet above its waters. on the Hamilton
river the banks are 700 feet high, below
Grand falls Before taking the plunge,
the river rushes down an incline of 200
feet in four miles and then throws it.
self over a precipice 300 feet deep, into
the gorge below.
Lake Winakapow is 4l6 feet deep. In
every direction the streams broaden
out into lakes, often studded with
islands Lake Michikamow Is as large
as Mistassini about which, a few years
ago, so much fuss was made
As result of the exploration, the
courses of the Ungava and Hamilton
rivers, heretofore only outlined on the
authority OF very unreliable Indian re-
ports, are now accurately defined, The
face of the map of Labrador has been al
together changed and very materially
added to.
Much, also, that is new IS learned of
the climate, which, judging from the
trees and plants, does not differ mate
rally from portions of Northern Quebec
under cultivation.
Along the Ungava and Hamilton
rivers lhere are areas where the forest
trees white, black and balsam spruce
ana birch, are of considera BILE mercan-
tile value, being twenty-four inches in
diameter. There are also great areas
which have been denuded by fires.
On the CngaYa and Hamilton, too,
there are bedded in the rocks immense
masses of iron ore the amount seen,
TO use the words of the report, run
ming up 10 millions of tons"
Most curious geological features We're
also observed, the great ice drifts hav-
ing produced singular displacements,
perching great boulders on the very
SUBMITS of rocky hills, sometimes in
such positions that push would dis
place them.
The whole country will prove a per-
feet paradise for such fishermen as
have the leisure and means to pene-
trate into it, for the scientific and
therefore truthful explorer testitles that
during the summer Of 1894 his party
lived almost exclusively on fish caught
IN nets, set out at night and taken in
in the morning, while brook trout seven
pounds in weight, and enormous lake
trout, whitelish, pike and landlocked
salmon We're taken everywhere.