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~—=#b4 Snapshots from the North Pacife.

Port Essington, Alert.Bay..

and costly. When canoeing I find time for reading. This
last autumn I made a much more accurate survey of the
Skeena River than has been attempted before. The result
is a map on a large scale which I have found time to make,
and that Iam by this mail sending to the Surveyor-General,
in the hope thait it will forward the settlement of immigrants
on the excellent land I saw in different places. In one dis-
trict I walked in one day thirty miles over a splendid country
fii for the plough, where in years to come there will be fine
farms.
“ Dec. 16th.

“The district assigned to the Rector of Essington formerly
reached the Hudson Bay Co.’s forts, a month’s travel from
the coast, and the gold mines yet more distant. The expense
of travelling has so increased that I cannot provide the
money to send a missionary the round annually. My
autumnal visit has to do double duty. One little bit of my
experience will interest you. As soon as the miners who
had married Indian women knew that I had determined on

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