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meet and proceed to Kluk-mute. I travelled up the Nulato River in a northwesterly course seventeen miles enclosed by high hills destitute of wood on the summits and a few hundred feet on the slopes, portions of the valley are heavily timbered with spruce. Leaving the river I followed a ravine three miles to the water shed of the Kaththlathlatno river, thence west twenty five (25) miles over ridges, and across the latter named stream, up the water-shed of the Khotelno river to the pass, where I arrived in a snow storm. Being unable to get a view of the surrounding country, I camped to wait a change in the weather, but the storm continuing, and my provisions getting low, I was compelled to leave for Altan-mute; about fifty miles distant in a northerly direction traveling along the main summit, and reached that place May 5th. At the source of the Inglutalik River, I saw a low pass heading to a southern branch of the Thleka-det-thli-hno River over which the line could easily be built.

Should the line be constructed via the Inglutalik and Khotelno rivers, Spruce trees, suitable for poles can be found in the valley and ravines from thirty miles of its mouth to within ten miles of the pass: and on the eastern slope, to within five miles. From there the valleys will furnish an abundance to the Korhkpah river. 

In winter the only means of transportation is by dogs and sleds; in summer birchbark canoes.