of Lake Superior. 9 



Cap may be considered as its east limit ; the western angle being 

 a round flat cape, the end of a low tongue of woods a league 

 broad, and extending eight or nine miles into the lake from the 

 hilly ridges on the north. This bay widens somewhat within, and 

 may be eight miles deep. It is bounded immediately by low lands 

 covered with maple, birch, pitch pine, spruce, poplar, 8fc., but on 

 the north and east it has lofty ranges of hills. 



On the outer or western side of the tongue above-mentioned, a 

 few miles from the extremity, is placed the "Great Maple Island," 

 flat and woody, the largest of a scattered group, called, the 

 " Maple Islands." One of these, usually made for in fine weather 

 by canoes from Gros Cap, is about three miles north-west of the 

 point ; and three others lie off the mouth of the bay next on the 

 north, which contains Green Island, about a mile long, and of the 

 same features as the Maple Group. 



This bay is triangular in its shape, and is between four and 

 five miles in diameter. Its shores are similar to those of Bat- 

 chewine Bay. The flat north-west angle of the last described 

 bay, crowded with spruce and poplar, is the south-east angle also 

 of another bay, eight and a third miles across, and four miles 

 deep. Its lower or south-east arm is lined with white sandstone 

 in debris and in low ledges at the projections of the indeats ; but 

 every other part is faced with sand banks, 10 and 20 feet high, 

 and extending into the dense woods ; which are backed by hills 

 of imposing outlines, 700 and 800 feet high. A winding river 

 about 50 feet broad enters at the bottom. 



From the gently curving north point of this large bay, the shore 

 continues for four and a half miles rocky, and moderately straight 

 to Point Marmoaze ; (Memince of the Voyageurs ;) but it still 

 has frequent coves, and one shallow bay, almost a mile in diameter, 

 lined with sand banks. The interior is woody and rather low, 

 but rises slowly. There are three or four islets, surrounded with 

 reefs and broken mounds of rock near the point. Gros Cap and 

 Whitefish Point on the south shore are in sight from hence. Be- 

 tween them is seen Point Iroquois, apparently an island. From 

 Point Marmoaze the canoe route crosses a bay seven miles wide, 



