Ontario Sessional Papers, 1913, . Drifting Ice in Hay Field at Moose Factory. 1913 IXYESTIGATIOXS AT JAMES BAY. 35 sediment carried by the stream occurs to a greater extent in these shoal areas thanwhere the current is faster; but there is evidently an irregular and spasmodicextension of these shoals in addition to the more regular growth from season toseason. This is probably accounted for by the stones and other earthy materialcarried from the shores and from the rapids in the river, by the ice which drifts toand fro in the estuary for a considerable portion of the month
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1913, . Drifting Ice in Hay Field at Moose Factory. 1913 IXYESTIGATIOXS AT JAMES BAY. 35 sediment carried by the stream occurs to a greater extent in these shoal areas thanwhere the current is faster; but there is evidently an irregular and spasmodicextension of these shoals in addition to the more regular growth from season toseason. This is probably accounted for by the stones and other earthy materialcarried from the shores and from the rapids in the river, by the ice which drifts toand fro in the estuary for a considerable portion of the month of November, andalso by similar material carried on cakes of ice during the breakup, much of whichfinds a natural lodgment on the shoals. A look at the banks of the river, strewnas they are with stones and dotted with piles of freshly dumped earth makes itapparent that great quantities of these materials are transported by the ice andfind their way to places where ice-shoves take place. The wearing away of theshores of islands which lie exposed to the full force of
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