390 MOUTH OF THE THLEW-EE-CHOH. 



which, dwindling away on the eastern side to a 

 vanishing point, subsided on the western into 

 low flats, the level of which was just broken by 

 half a dozen sandy knolls sparingly tipped with 

 a few blades of dry grass. The banks on this side 

 were cut by several channels leading to the left, 

 but shallow, and not navigable. The country on 

 both sides was swampy, and gradually sloped 

 upwards to the distant mountains. 



This then may be considered as the mouth of 

 theThlew-ee-choh, which, after a violent and tor- 

 tuous course of five hundred and thirty geogra- 

 phical miles, running through an iron-ribbed coun- 

 try without a single tree on the whole line of its 

 banks, expanding into fine large lakes with clear 

 horizons, most embarrassing to the navigator, and 

 broken into falls, cascades, and rapids, to the 

 number of no less than eighty-three in the whole, 

 pours its waters into the Polar Sea in latitude 

 67° 11' 00" N., and longitude 94° SO' 0" W. ; 

 that is to say, about thirty-seven miles more south 

 than the mouth of the Copper Mine River, and 

 nineteen miles more south than that of Back's 

 River at the lower extremity of Bathurst's Inlet. 



The rush of the current, opposed by a fresh 

 breeze, and possibly by the tide, raised such 

 high and breaking waves as we put out with an 

 intention of gaining the headland, that the laden 

 boat was unable to resist them, and shipped a 



