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he following spring on account of the lack of provisions. On June 13, 1898, by an act of the Canadian Parliament, the boundaries of Ungava, Keewatin, Franklin, Mackenzie, and Yukon were changed, and the Yukon region was constituted a separate territory, with an area of 198,300 square miles, 2,000 of which is water surface. In February, 1898, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey issued a new map of the Yukon River region. The map includes the territory between long. 38° and 166° W., and lat. 60° to 67° N. The Yukon River is traced considerably beyond the Klondike region, and the portion within Alaska is very fully treated. The country between Forty-Mile Post and Stewart River is also given with minute exactness. The results of military and scientific explorations undertaken by the United States government in Alaska indicate that that Territory contains a larger amount of gold, besides other economic minerals, than the area popularly termed the Klondike region. See Ala