with fish, will with better access prove a great pleasure resort. On Stuart Lake ancient Indian rock paintings and Indian villages, notably Pinchi and Tachie, offer interest, and the lover of romance will find much of interest in the old forts of the fur-traders at Fort St. James, Fort Babine, etc., which have interesting histories. There are also scenes of historic interest connected with the Omineca gold-rush, including old villages of log huts at Manson Creek and elsewhere used by early miners. Indians are notable for skill in making beaded moccasins and gloves from moosehide. Indians are Carriers. Many, particu- larly on Babine Lake, peregrinate much by water, and Fort Babine is an assembly-point for celebrations, notably when the Indians foregather there in midsummer to take and prepare salmon for winter use. GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY. This region, roughly, forms the north-west corner of the Northern Interior Plateau, but much of the area is neither true plateau nor mountain country, marking transition between the two types, with areas of lightly timbered plateau crossed by ridges 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the general surface; valleys with ridges between 2,700 and 2,900 feet above them. Governing features are four depressions—Bulkley Valley to south; ‘separated by Babine Range from Babine Lake; the Stuart-Trembleur-Takla Lake system; a lesser inter- vening lake and river system, with Natowite and Tochcha Lakes as chief waters, separated by mountain ranges from the Babine and Stuart systems. Features of these, like other ranges, are very pronounced at northern end, but break up and merge into hill country and plateau toward the south. These valleys parallel, bearing roughly N. 30° W., the general direction of many main physical features of the Province. Transverse valleys occur in several places, notably that used by the Stuart-Babine Lake Port- age Road, and between Wright Bay, Babine Lake, and Trembleur Lake, through which a road was made and used in early days of Omineca rush, but not since. North of the Trembleur Lake Pass the Middle River Range has some snow-capped peaks, and, generally speaking, country north of 55th parallel, along Takla Lake, is mountainous, while that to south is lower and fairly flat in places. The Pacific-Arctic Divide, which is a little to north of 55th parallel, runs approximately east and west to within a few miles of Middle River, where it swings north-west, roughly Paralleling Takla Lake and Driftwood River flowing to it from the north. South and west of this divide are the lake-basins, with their long connective lake and river systems affording continuous navigation possibilities. 6