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a small headland. It is subdivided into very numerous bays and 

 coves: one of the former, eight miles from the Otter's Head, 

 beino- of considerable magnitude and chequered with viroody islets. 

 The depositions of sand in many of these curvatures are very large. 

 They are visible from the lake, for half a mile or a mile into the in- 

 terior ; and certainly extend farther. This is especially the case 

 from seven to eleven miles east of the Otter's Head, where, in 

 places, the sand hills are 150 feet high in two or more steep embank- 

 ments. The violence of the waves here also has thrown up vast 

 heaps of angular debris, torn from the contiguous rock, 20 or 30 

 feet above water-mark, and has even scattered them among the 

 trees. Near the lake, all the rivers run over alluvial bottoms, 

 and are commonly shallow at their junction with it. They are 

 small, as far as I am aware ; there is one, however, in the large 

 bay eight miles east of the Otter's Head, of some size, flowing in 

 dark ravines, scantily feathered with shrubbery. 



The Otter's Head is an erect upright slab, about 30 feet in 

 length, placed on some rocks, 100 feet high, and at an interval 

 from die lake, which, though small, is greater than it appears, as 

 we learn in attempting to reach it. These rocks form a promon- 

 tory which overlooks a deep but small cove, sheltered by a group 

 of islets and rocks ; one of the former is large and well wooded. 



The coast between the Otter's Head and the Peek River, (41 

 miles long,) is more deeply indented than the space from the 

 Otter's Head to the crags. Its hills are higher, more massive, 

 and frequently dip precipitously into woody dells. The sand- 

 beaches are fewer, nearly the whole margin of the water being of 

 low naked rocks. About 21 miles from the Peek River there is 

 a large arenaceous bed, 120 feet high, and passing inland. A 

 river pours through it into Lake Superior, from a level and rather 

 fertile country ; but closed in the distance by granitic hills. A 

 similar deposit exists in tht bay south-east from this river, three- 

 quarters of a mile wide, one mile and a half deep, but not more 

 than 20 feet high. 



The Smaller Written Rocks are about a sandy cove 14 miles 



