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PHYSICAL FEATURES 13<br />

Hudson Bav is a large inland sea, having an area of 350,000 square<br />

miles. Including its two arms it has an extreme length north and south<br />

of 1,300 miles, and a width across the bay proper of about 600 miles.<br />

The Bay of Fundy, 170 miles long, and from 30 to 50 miles wide,<br />

nearly separates Nova Scotia from New Brunswick, the connecting<br />

Isthmus of Chignecto being about 15 miles wide.<br />

The principal islands in <strong>Canada</strong> are Baffin Land, Prince Albert Land<br />

(which are the principal islands in the district of Franklin), Vancouver<br />

and Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia ; Prince Edward<br />

Island, Cape Breton Island and Anticosti in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.<br />

The climate varies greatly. The average mean temperature is—in<br />

Prince Edward Island, summer, 61-9 degrees F., and 19-5 in winter ;<br />

New Brunswick, summer, 60 degrees, and winter 19-0 ; Nova Scotia,<br />

summer, 65-2, and winter 25-0 ; Quebec 58-3 summer, and 15- winter ;<br />

Ontario, 63-0 summer, and 19-8 winter ; Manitoba, 60-i summer, and<br />

o-8 winter ; British Columbia, summer 61 •, and winter 32 '4.<br />

RAIN AND SNOWFALL IN CANADA, 1874-<strong>1897</strong>.<br />

Year.<br />

ONTARIO. QUEBEC. NOVA SCOTIA.<br />

NEW<br />

BKUKSWICK.<br />

Rain. Snow. Rain. Snow. Rain. Snow. Rain. Snow.<br />

In. In. In. In In. In In. In<br />

1874<br />

1875<br />

1876<br />

1877<br />

1878<br />

187!)<br />

1880<br />

1881<br />

1882<br />

1884<br />

1886<br />

18X7<br />

1889<br />

1890<br />

1891<br />

1892<br />

1893<br />

1894<br />

1895<br />

1896<br />

<strong>1897</strong><br />

19<br />

40<br />

21<br />

91<br />

23<br />

10<br />

22<br />

16<br />

34<br />

14<br />

21<br />

68<br />

27<br />

23<br />

22<br />

63<br />

22<br />

70<br />

28<br />

30<br />

23<br />

37<br />

29<br />

70<br />

24<br />

76<br />

19<br />

81<br />

22<br />

82<br />

24<br />

58<br />

28<br />

62<br />

27<br />

09<br />

26<br />

47<br />

25<br />

59<br />

23<br />

30<br />

20<br />

65<br />

22<br />

36<br />

28<br />

31<br />

75<br />

0<br />

97<br />

5<br />

91<br />

4<br />

52<br />

3<br />

60<br />

4<br />

87<br />

7<br />

66<br />

3<br />

64<br />

0<br />

73<br />

5<br />

91<br />

5<br />

91<br />

6<br />

91<br />

4<br />

90<br />

4<br />

85<br />

1<br />

59<br />

0<br />

78<br />

5<br />

66<br />

4<br />

64<br />

7<br />

70<br />

6<br />

99<br />

3<br />

55<br />

1<br />

81<br />

4<br />

73<br />

3<br />

73<br />

0<br />

25 93<br />

30-03 107<br />

1<br />

123<br />

0<br />

25<br />

77<br />

124<br />

3<br />

23<br />

52<br />

92<br />

3<br />

29<br />

62<br />

96<br />

5<br />

24<br />

50<br />

113<br />

9<br />

24<br />

08<br />

103<br />

9<br />

23<br />

62<br />

86<br />

4<br />

26<br />

00<br />

107<br />

4<br />

24<br />

54<br />

117<br />

7<br />

26<br />

12<br />

130<br />

3<br />

24<br />

44<br />

137<br />

0<br />

24<br />

98<br />

121<br />

3<br />

21<br />

36<br />

147<br />

9<br />

27<br />

35<br />

155<br />

2<br />

26<br />

99<br />

105<br />

5<br />

26<br />

52<br />

!>()<br />

3<br />

23<br />

46<br />

26<br />

02<br />

85 9<br />

84<br />

112 1<br />

23<br />

39<br />

107<br />

5<br />

22<br />

09<br />

84<br />

8<br />

25<br />

68<br />

93<br />

0<br />

25<br />

09<br />

124<br />

0<br />

28<br />

91<br />

4<br />

36 95<br />

30-61<br />

35 09<br />

38 36<br />

43 82<br />

27-70<br />

33 94<br />

32 59<br />

35 37<br />

36 82<br />

4173<br />

38<br />

27<br />

35<br />

05<br />

39<br />

07<br />

41<br />

11<br />

34<br />

29<br />

40<br />

66<br />

44<br />

26<br />

43<br />

42<br />

42<br />

46<br />

29<br />

31<br />

36<br />

71<br />

36<br />

88<br />

38<br />

94<br />

86<br />

5<br />

104<br />

6<br />

87<br />

6<br />

67<br />

8<br />

30<br />

3<br />

113<br />

1<br />

94<br />

7<br />

77<br />

2<br />

115<br />

2<br />

87<br />

2<br />

79<br />

1<br />

89<br />

7<br />

49<br />

3<br />

58<br />

5<br />

60<br />

6<br />

35<br />

7<br />

46<br />

8<br />

51<br />

8<br />

61<br />

4<br />

81<br />

8<br />

80<br />

3<br />

75<br />

1<br />

64<br />

8<br />

86<br />

5<br />

26-81<br />

32 53<br />

3151<br />

31 03<br />

34 16<br />

32 46<br />

26 50<br />

35 36<br />

29 69<br />

28-27<br />

38 82<br />

33 00<br />

30 92<br />

32-85<br />

40 44<br />

30 25<br />

30 77<br />

34 86<br />

32 99<br />

28-89<br />

23 74<br />

3134<br />

26 50<br />

33 76<br />

107 1<br />

126 6<br />

106 0<br />

87 3<br />

87 4<br />

115 2<br />

92 3<br />

77 3<br />

139 0<br />

95 6<br />

89 5<br />

118 3<br />

102 1<br />

128 9<br />

105 5<br />

72 3<br />

102 3<br />

83 7<br />

67 9<br />

109 0<br />

103 3<br />

88 9<br />

91 1<br />

80 3

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