DUBAWNT, or DOOBAUNT (

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• INDIAN

Indian Toobaung, i.e. turbid)  , a river of Mackenzie and Keewatin districts, Canada . It rises in Wholdaia (or Daly) Lake, in 104° 20' W. and 60° 15' N., and flows northward to its confluence with the Thelon river, and thence eastward to Chesterfield Inlet, an arm of 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 of 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 Hanbury in' 1899 . See Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Canada for 1896 (printed 1898) .