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crescentic cross-fractures in the grooves. At the west end of Baker 

 Lake the north-westerly striation is crossed by what appears to be 

 a local glaciation from the north, but this southward moving glacier 

 soon obliterated all traces of the north-westerly one, and then the 

 trend of the glaciation is found to be down Chesterfield Inlet, which 



is a ropky fiord with a depth varying from twenty- five to forty 

 fathoms. The north-west coast of Hudson Bay, for 150 miles south 

 of Chesterfield Inlet, is bold and rocky, and the hard Huronian 

 rocks of which it is chiefly composed everj'where show well-defined 

 glacial markings which have a general direction about S. 50° E. or 

 directly out into the bay. Near the mouth of Egg Eiver a boss of 



