Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1905 . y between Ekwan river and theBig Owl river. These streams become wider •nd shallower at theirmouths, and their channels through the mud flats that appear at lowwater are so wide that we had to drag our canoes, drawing only fourteeninches, up one of the channels for two miles in order to reach the shore. The most easterly point of Cape Henrietta Maria is eighteen milesnorthward from the mouth of the Big Owl river and 300 miles fromMoose Factory, following the sinuosities of the coast. This part ofthe coast is flanked by sand and gravel bars, som
Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1905 . y between Ekwan river and theBig Owl river. These streams become wider •nd shallower at theirmouths, and their channels through the mud flats that appear at lowwater are so wide that we had to drag our canoes, drawing only fourteeninches, up one of the channels for two miles in order to reach the shore. The most easterly point of Cape Henrietta Maria is eighteen milesnorthward from the mouth of the Big Owl river and 300 miles fromMoose Factory, following the sinuosities of the coast. This part ofthe coast is flanked by sand and gravel bars, some having an elevationof twenty feet above the tide mark, the water being deep right up tothe shore. We terminated the survey at the east point of Cape Hen-rietta Maria in latitude 54° 51 30 and we planted a post recording myname and the date, August 18. North-west from this point the shoreis extremely flat and, when the tide was out, we could see nothing butmudflats strewn with numerous large boulders. (itilai»al ^uinf u iif iCaratia. 176 Ekwan r Raft ri\ Lakitoriver. BigO Smalstrea Terr of SI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT . - r-^^v*/ADn \/ll . A. 1905 SUMMAItY RKFORT 177 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 26 Inland from high water mark we generally found a strip of low drymud, in places a mile wide, and covered with grass, with occasionalsand and gravel bars. To the rear of this, a fringe of alders andjuniper-bushes of from ten to sixty chains wide, reaches the spruceswamps and muskeg areas which, I believe, is the character of theground overlying the Devonian and Silurian formations extending for150 miles west of the James bay coast. In latitude 54^ the spruce wooils recede from the shore in a north-westerly direction and the coast continues north to the mouth of theOpinnegau river, then north-east to Cape Henrietta Maria. Thecountry lying Ijetween the northern limit of trees and the cape is abarren, dry and gravel plain with sandy knolls and fresh water ponds-Only two exposures of rock
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