of Lake Superior. 17 



broad. It is on, 6x near, the height of land. On its north, at no 

 great distance, is Little Long Lake, narrow, and 20 miles long*. 



At the mouth of Peek River, the Hudson's Bay Company have 

 a fort ; a picketted square, formed by the superintendent's house, 

 other dwellings and warehouses. 



Peek Bay is rather more than two miles and a half in breadth, 

 and about half that depth. Its south arm is a moderate concave 

 line, but that on the north leaves the bottom of the bay by a right 

 angle, as a straight headland of woody steeps faced by seven 

 thickly-timbered islets. From this point the coast of Lake Supe- 

 rior for six miles and a half, (with indents at the south end,) trends 

 N.b.W.|W. to another headland, faced by lofty casque-shaped 

 islets ; this interval being chiefly a high beach of shingle, backed 

 by a deposition of sand and gravel, in several levels, which fre- 

 quently unite. The height of this bank at the east end is 50 feet, 

 but at the west end 100 feet. 



Seventeen miles and an half by canoe route from the Peek River 

 is Peek Island ; placed opposite to a lofty and broad promontory 

 of deeply-fissured rock. I can only add that it is several miles 

 in circumference, and has at least two naked, rounded summits, the 

 highest of which attains an elevation of 600 feet. The shores of 

 the lake to this promontory from the casque-shaped islets are 

 broken into deep bays, overlooked by pleasingly-grouped hills of 

 conical or undulating outlines from 600 to 800 feet high, which 

 dip into the lake in precipices or shattered slopes. About three 

 miles north-east of Peek Island is a small cluster of bare islets 

 close to another high cape, the west end of a long traverse. 



This bay north-west from Peek Island is nine miles across at 

 its mouth, and is of great depth. A round islet of greenstone near 

 its middle, is of great use in rough weather, as a place of refuge 

 for canoes. Its hills are in broad flai\ks 800 and 900 feet high. 

 The bay is full of minor curvatures. A well sheltered and very 

 convenient cove with a narrow entrance, a little within its west- 

 ern cape, has given to that angle, the name of " Cap a I'ance de 



• For these particulars I am obliged to Mr. M'Tavish, Superintendent of 

 Peek Fort. 



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