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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Book Notices. Book Notices. tured from all points of view and from base to top. Sixty-four photographs are given to the mountain alone and we see all its aspects in quietude and eruption, even to the interior of the most important craters. The descriptions are based upon the geology and geography of the region, the story of the volcano in historic times is told, and the setting of the great mountain, from the sea to the hills and plains bordering the inland slopes with their towns and hamlets, people and little farms, is well described in text and picture. The book is meant for the general reader and tourists will find it very helpful. Canada's Fertile Northland. A Glimpse of the Enormous Resources of Part of the Unexplored Regions of the Dominion. Edited by Captain Ernest J. Chambers. I39 pp., I7 Half-tone Illustrations and 5 Coloured Maps in Case. Published under Direction of R. E. Young, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, I907. Contains the evidence heard before a Special Committee of the Dominion Senate during the session of I906-07 and the report based upon it. In his introduction Captain Chambers says that at the present rate of immigration, Canada's future expansion in agricultural, lumbering, mining and industries will depend upon the exploitation of the vast, unexplored northland. In 1905 Mr. R. E. Young prepared a statement showing that the available lands for free homesteads in the present area of settlement in the western provinces would be exhausted before very long, and calling attention to the possibilities further north and the paucity of information about the country to the north of the Saskatchewan basin. The result was that a Senate Committee was appointed to inquire and report, from time to time, as to the resources and value of the region north of the Saskatchewan watershed between the Rocky Mountains and Hudson Bay, comprising the northern parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan Provinces and the Mackenzie Territory. The Committee was empowered to send for persons, papers and records, and more than a month in February and March, 1907, was given to taking testimony. The first investigation was practically completed by April and the results are told in this book. In the evidence heard before the Committee some striking facts stand out prominently, a number of which are summarized in the Introduction. Mr. A. P. Low, for example, said that Ungava possesses a belt of iron-bearing rock, probably Ioo miles long and 200 to 300 miles wide, which in the future will furnish a large supply of iron for Canada. He also said that in the region north of Lake Winnipeg is an area of 5,000 to xo,ooo square miles of country adapted for agriculture. Mr. W. F. Breden, a member of the Alberta Legislature, estimated the area of the available agricultural lands in northern Alberta and Mackenzie at Ioo,ooo,ooo acres. Others testified that at a point some 400 miles due north of Edmonton splendid crops of wheat, barley, oats, peas, etc., have been regularly raised for more than twenty years, the product for I906 being 25,000 bushels. The production of grain in these sparsely settled regions has resulted in the establishment of local grist mills of considerable capacity which manufacture flour by modern processes. Potatoes and other vegetables have for years been satisfactorily cultivated at Fort Good Hope, on the Mackenzie River, 14 miles from the Arctic Circle. Vegetation matures quickly owing to the long, sunny days of summer. The lakes and rivers teem with fish, there is an abundance of game and considerable minerlal wealth, including coal, oil, copper, silver, gold, salt, sulphur, ochre, sand for glass making, etc. Timber also is in important supply.