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GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES 81<br />

1.—Drainage Basins of <strong>Canada</strong>.<br />

Drainage Basins<br />

Area<br />

Drained<br />

Drainage Basins<br />

Area<br />

Drained<br />

Atlantic Basin.<br />

Sq. miles Hudson Bay Basin—concluded Sq. miles<br />

29,100 Kazan<br />

32,700<br />

5,400<br />

58,500<br />

St John<br />

21,500<br />

Total 1,486,000<br />

309,500<br />

35,900<br />

Pacific Basin.<br />

16,200<br />

145,800<br />

24,600<br />

8,000<br />

21,900<br />

9,000 Pelly 21,300<br />

56,700<br />

35,000<br />

3,500 White 15,000<br />

Total 554,000<br />

11,200<br />

9,100 Taku 7,600<br />

Hudson Bay Basin<br />

Stikine 20,300<br />

62,400<br />

7,400<br />

20,000<br />

19,300<br />

Big<br />

26,300<br />

91,700<br />

25,500<br />

21,800<br />

15,700<br />

15,700<br />

9,800<br />

5,600<br />

29,800<br />

4,500<br />

42,100<br />

7,500<br />

11,300<br />

39,300<br />

10,600<br />

15,500<br />

59,800<br />

6,000<br />

20,700 Kettle 3,160<br />

18,700<br />

1,190<br />

24,100<br />

38,600<br />

Total 387,300<br />

28,000<br />

370,800<br />

Arctic Basin.<br />

44,000<br />

47,500<br />

English<br />

20,600<br />

29,100<br />

Red<br />

63,400<br />

682,000<br />

52,600<br />

1,700<br />

158,800 Hay 25,700<br />

54,700<br />

117,100<br />

65,500<br />

58,900<br />

18,300<br />

11,100<br />

Total 1,290,000<br />

Belly<br />

8,900<br />

Churchill<br />

115,500 Gulf of Mexico Basin 12,365<br />

NOTE.—Owing to overlapping, the totals of each drainage basin do not represent an<br />

addition of the drainage areas as given. Tributaries and sub-tributaries are indicated by<br />

indentation of the names.<br />

2.—Lengths of Principal Blvers and Tributaries in <strong>Canada</strong>.<br />

Names Miles Names Miles<br />

Flowing into the Atlantic Ocean.<br />

Natashkwan<br />

St. John<br />

18427—6<br />

Flowing into the Atlantic Ocean<br />

—continued<br />

350<br />

135<br />

220<br />

St. Lawrence (to head of St. Louis). 1,900<br />

270<br />

310<br />

210<br />

270<br />

130<br />

240<br />

390 Saguenay (to head of Peribonka). 405

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