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DUBAWNT, or DOOBAUNT (Indian Toobaung, i.e. turbid) , a river of Mackenzie and Keewatin
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Hudson Bay. It passes through numerous lake-expansions, including Dubawnt Lake, with an area of 1700 sq. m. and an altitude of 500 ft. above the sea; Aberdeen, altitude 130 ft.; and Baker, 30 ft. From the head of Wholdaia Lake to the head of Chesterfield Inlet is 750 M. and thence to the west coast
Hudson Bay 125 M. The river is shallow, and banks and bed are chiefly composed of boulders; grassy slopes, however, occur at intervals along its banks, especially on the shores of Dubawnt Lake, and are the feeding grounds of large bands of cariboo. Discovered in 1770 by Samuel Hearne, the Dubawnt'was explored by J. B. Tyrrell in 1893, and the Thelon by David
See Annual Report of the Geological
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