GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Islands, north 

 of Juan Perez 

 Sound. 



Hot Spring. 



Indian bath. 



The north-east side of Juan Perez Inlet is formed by a group of 

 islands, of which Faraday, Murchison and Eamsay Islands are the 

 largest. Eamsay Island is two and three-quarter miles in length, east 

 and west. Bold hills rise in the centre of the island, which is densely 

 wooded. Its south shore is high, with some rocky cliffs. Two small 

 islets lie off the north-east shore, which is rugged and composed of 

 solid rock. The north-west shore has several coves, but none suited 

 for anchorage. Murchison Island is two and a half miles long ; Fara- 

 day Island nearly two miles. Both are low. Between Eamsay and 

 Murchison Islands is a little group composed of Hot Spring Island, 

 House Island and a few more small islets and rocks. Between Hot 

 Spring and House Islands is a good anchorage for small schooners, 

 sheltered on all sides but the north. On the south side of Hot Spring 

 Islaud is the spring from which it has been so named. Its situation is 

 easily recognized by a patch of green mossy sward which can be seen 

 from a considerable distance. Steam also generally hovers over it. 

 The actual source of the water is not seen, but is probably not far from 

 the inner edge of the mossy patch. The surface is composed of broken 

 fragments, more or less completely concealed by bush and sod, and the 

 water is first seen lower clown, where it issues in a number of little 

 streams over a considerable breadth, and flows out upon the beach. I 

 had no thermometer reading sufficiently high to take the temperature 

 of the warmest .streams, in which the hand could scarcely be held with 

 comfort. Other rills, probably coming less directly from the source, 

 are comparatively cool. The water has a slight smell of sulphuretted 

 hydrogen, and a barely perceptible saline taste. The stones over 

 which it flows in some places show traces of a whitish deposit, and the 

 streams and pools are choked with a slimy confervoid growth. On 

 stripping off the sod of the portion of ground not covered by trees and 

 bushes, the earth is found to be quite warm. The Indians bathe in a 

 natural pool in which the waters of one of the streams collect; it is 

 partly full of soft mud, but hard in the bottom. 



Eunning northward from the end of Murchison Island is a chain of 

 small islands about four miles long, which may be named the Tar 

 Islands, as the Indians report that on one of them bituminous matter 

 is found oozing out among the stones on the beach. The southern 

 island of the group — Agglomerate Mind — has apparently been burnt 

 over, and is covered with standing dead trees. It alone was visited, 

 and owing to some confusion in the bearings taken for the purpose of 

 fixing the others, their number and position as shown on the map is 

 somewhat uncertain. Outside these islands lies a single low island 

 with a few trees, which may be called Tuft Island. 



Eocks dry at low water lie between Faraday and Murchison Islands, 



