. Observations on the geology, zoology and botany of Hudson's Strait and Bay made in 1885 [microform]. Geology; Botany; Zoology; Géologie; Plantes; Zoologie. -] HUDSON 8 STRAIT. 11 n D was found to be ubout eight miles long and three miles wide, and to be sepai-ated from the Inner Digges by a straight channel, alx)iit one mile wide. It is formed entirely of Laurentian gneiss, which strikes with the longer axis of the island. This island has been thoroughly glaciated, oiaciation. Around its western end the groovings run north-eastward (true), but along the north side they sot more nearly east,
. Observations on the geology, zoology and botany of Hudson's Strait and Bay made in 1885 [microform]. Geology; Botany; Zoology; Géologie; Plantes; Zoologie. -] HUDSON 8 STRAIT. 11 n D was found to be ubout eight miles long and three miles wide, and to be sepai-ated from the Inner Digges by a straight channel, alx)iit one mile wide. It is formed entirely of Laurentian gneiss, which strikes with the longer axis of the island. This island has been thoroughly glaciated, oiaciation. Around its western end the groovings run north-eastward (true), but along the north side they sot more nearly east, showing that the stream of ice was flowing out of the bed of Hudson's Bay and eastward in the Strait. The outer points of this shore are all rounded and bald, with the glacial grooving and fluting strongly markoil, as may be seen In the accompanying sketch of one of these small Cape on North Side of Outer Digges Island. The sciuth-eastern part of Inner Digges Island presents a high and jjj-j, j,|yg>g nearly vertical clitt", facing the still higher blutts of Cape Wolstenholme, \vo?stenhoime. of which an outline-sketch was £,iven in my report for 1880. From the cape these blutts continue southward for some miles, diminishing in height and merging into the rounded hills of the coast further down. At about thirty miles south of the cape the country, forming the imme- diate coast, has become comparatively low, but ranges of partially- rounded hills rise higher and higher towards the interior. On our return from the west side of Hu laon's Bay in the month of September, I exjilored this part of the coast in a small boat, and found the rocks to south consist of common forms of gneiss, with veins and ])atches of fine-Wolstenholme. grained red granite in some places. On the mainland, about twenty miles south of Port Lapierriere is a very ancient Eskimo camping gi-ound, which is still inhabited. We could not ascertain from the natives what they called the place, a
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