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Albany river Attawapiskat river banks Banksian pine basin Bay Company beds biotite black spruce boulder clay branch canoes Cape Henrietta Maria Cape Jones Cat lake Cedar channel coast covered diameter distance district drift east Ekwan river elevation exposures feet flat flowing gneiss granite gravel height-of-land hornblende Hudson bay Huronian indet Indians island James bay Kapiskau Lac Seul Lake St land limestone lower Moose Factory mouth muskeg narrow nearly north-east northern northward occur outlet poplar portage road probably quartz Rapid Rapid Red lake ridges rising road at falls rocks route running sand sandy schists seen Severn river shallow shells shoals shore side Silurian slates slope small lake south-west southern species specimens spruce and tamarac striæ surface survey Sutton Mill lakes tamarac timber trees Trout lake upper valley valve Weibikwei lake Whiteaves whorl wide Winisk river Wunnummin lake
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Page 194 - Reports for that year.) In 1877 inexhaustible supplies of good manganiferous iron ore were discovered on the islands near the Eastmain coast, and promising quantities of galena around Richmond gulf and also near Little W'hale river, where a small amount had previously been known to exist. Traces of gold, silver, molybdenum and copper were likewise noted on the Eastmain coast.
Page 192 - In the popular mind Hudson's Bay is apt to be associated with the Polar regions ; yet no part of it comes within the Arctic Circle, and the latitude of the southern extremity is south of London. Few people have any adequate conception of the extent of this great Canadian sea. Including its southern prolongation, James...
Page 192 - ... feet above the sea. The country on the south-west side of the main bay, as well as that lying to the west of James bay, is low and generally level, with shallow water extending a long distance out from shore.
Page 85 - All the way from Martin's Falls to The Forks, the Albany is flanked by steep banks, either immediately overlooking the water, or rising at a short distance back from it. In descending the river their general height increases gradually from forty to about ninety feet, and they also become more regular and continuous in approaching The Forks. They are at...
Page 193 - ... was found, continuous soundings throughout might have shown interruptions or shallower water in some places. As stated in previous reports, there is a section at the head of tide, or between the tidal portion and the regular inland channel of the river, in which not more than ten feet of water was found. This may extend for about two miles, above which an apparent continuous channel, with a depth of about twenty feet, according to our •soundings, extends to the lowest limestone rapid, which...
Page 85 - ... mile further down, some loose fragments of a bright bituminous coal were found. The Hudson Bay Company's officers informed me that coal had never been brought into the country; and, considering that the conveyance of even light and valuable goods is so expensive in this region, this is only what might have been expected, so that I cannot suppose this coal to have been brought here by human agency.
Page 89 - North of Cat lake and on Cedar river there is an almost unbroken continuation of the granites and gneisses, with a predominance of the red granite variety. In a few places basic inclusions in the gneisses might indicate that larger bodies of the same rock would be found in the near neighbourhood; and the following places might be mentioned, where such conditions occur: — On the lake at the head of Cedar river; on the lower end of Cedar (Kishikas lake); on Cedar river, at the mouth of the Francis...
Page 85 - The few fossils found in these rocks appear to indicate an equivalent of the Niagara formation ; but in one place, just below the mouth of the Goose River, or three miles below the point where the river turns southeast, bright red marl occurs on the north bank, and on a small island, a mile further down, some loose fragments of a bright bituminous coal were found.
Page 84 - The average strike is west, varying to ten arid sometimes to fifteen degrees both to the south and north of that course. The rapids mostly occur where great veins of the granite cross the bed of the river. Towards the end of the above twenty miles, bands of gneiss become interstratified with the sc'hists, and just at Martin's Falls the latter have become entirely replaced by red and grey gneiss, apparently shewing a conformable passage from the Huronian into the Laurentian rocks.
Page 84 - ... is so low and level, that, looking from one end of the lake, the land cannot be seen at the other. At the eastern extremity of the lake the Albany flows out by two channels, which only come together again at Moosewakfi lake, nearly twenty miles farther down.