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the headwaters of the Nechaco and St. Mary’s Lake,
as well as Lakes Hehn and Fingers, south of Stony
Creek and forming the double head of Mud River.

We will abstain from mentioning the numerous
mountains discovered by our explorer in the course
of his travellings, some of which he personally climbed
while he ascertained the altitude of others by sending
up Indians with his barometer.

Those geographical acquisitions and some others
were consigned on the original map which he published
in 1907, through the kind offices of the British Colum-
bia Government. In this connection, it is only right to
say that, such as printed, this cannot claim quite
the same degree of excellence as Morice’s original
manuscript. In the first place, its scale was reduced
(owing, they contended, to the size of their stone),
and then the various itineraries of the author, which
were intended to distinguish what he knew de visu and
had himself surveyed from what he marked down from
hearsay, were omitted.

Apart from his maps Father Morice published a
number of accounts of his voyages, of which we have
four before us as we write." We happen to know that
he had also many letters and diaries connected with the
subject of this chapter in a quarterly review of his Order
to which we cannot have access. As it is, we are none
the less in a position to invite the reader to accompany
him in portions of two of his exploring expeditions.
We commence by one which had the double object of

8 Namely the 1895 Diary of his trip to Bear Lake, up the Driftwood
and then overland to Fort Grahame, incorporated in his Au Pays del’Ours
Noir; his 1899 Diary, published along with other matter under the title
Du Lac Stuart a’ Océan Pacifique; the account of his very last exploratory
journey, Exploration de la Riviere Bulkley (1904), published, like the pre-
ceding, by the Neufchatel Soctété de Géographie, and his brochure on

The Northern Interior of British Columbia and its maps, issued, in 1918,
by the Royal Canadian Institute, of Toronto.