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HUDSON 8 STRAIT. 



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was found to be ubout eight miles long and three miles wide, and to be 



sepai-ated from the Inner Digges by a straight channel, alx)iit one mile 



wide. It is formed entirely of Laurentian gneiss, which strikes with 



the longer axis of the island. This island has been thoroughly glaciated, oiaciation. 



Around its western end the groovings run north-eastward (true), but 



along the north side they sot more nearly east, showing that the stream 



of ice was flowing out of the bed of Hudson's Bay and eastward in 



the Strait. The outer points of this shore are all rounded and bald, 



with the glacial grooving and fluting strongly markoil, as may be seen 



In the accompanying sketch of one of these small capes. 



Cape on North Side of Outer Digges Island. 



The sciuth-eastern part of Inner Digges Island presents a high and jjj-j, j,|yg>g 

 nearly vertical clitt", facing the still higher blutts of Cape Wolstenholme, \vo?stenhoime. 

 of which an outline-sketch was £,iven in my report for 1880. From the 

 cape these blutts continue southward for some miles, diminishing in 

 height and merging into the rounded hills of the coast further down. 

 At about thirty miles south of the cape the country, forming the imme- 

 diate coast, has become comparatively low, but ranges of partially- 

 rounded hills rise higher and higher towards the interior. On our 

 return from the west side of Hu laon's Bay in the month of September, 

 I exjilored this part of the coast in a small boat, and found the rocks to Co.i8t south 

 consist of common forms of gneiss, with veins and ])atches of fine- Wolstenholme. 

 grained red granite in some places. On the mainland, about twenty 

 miles south of Port Lapierriere is a very ancient Eskimo camping 

 gi-ound, which is still inhabited. We could not ascertain from the 

 natives what they called the place, and for the sake of convenience 

 in having some name for it we called it Hyla. In this neighbor- 

 hood the evidences of the rapid recession of the sea are visible on all the'sea?" '^^ 

 sides, in the form of shoaling bays and lagoons, as well as in raised 

 beaches and ridges of shingle. The latter sometimes form the isth- 



