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was occurring during this time, the mouth of the river would necessarily 

 be greatly changed, and the shallow flats of Capt. Coates' time would 

 be ten or fifteen feet above the sea. Another place where comparison 

 between levels at different dates can be made is the isthmus connecting 

 the peninsula at the end of the point dividing Hannah from Rupert 

 Bay. At present it is a low muddy neck covered with willows nowhore 

 five feet above high-water mark and distinct from the higher land on 

 either side, which is covered with spruce and tamarac. Now if the 

 change of level claimed were actually taking place, this peninsula two 

 hundred years ago would have been an island with a considerable depth 

 of water over the present isthmus, but on a map (Partio de laNouvelle 

 France, Hubert Jaillot, 1696) this very peninsula is marked, thus 

 affording good evidence against a rapid change of level of this part of 

 James' Bay. 



Between Little Charleton and Solomon's Temple are seven or eight 

 small low islands formed of sand and boulders and covered with low 

 bushes on their higher interior parts ; these islands are called the 

 Tiders. 



The Westons are four low drift islands thirteen miles N.N.E. from Weston islands 

 Solomon's Temple in lat. 53°. The largest is about seven miles long, 

 and on its western end the Hudson Bay Company had a ship wrecked 

 in 1724. 



Thirty-six miles N. 10° W. from Solomon's Temple, in lat. 53° 04', is South Twin 

 the south-cast point of the South Twin Island. This island is penta- s an " 

 gonal in shape, with its face to the southward; it is seven miles long 

 from north to south, with an average breadth of five miles. Starting 

 from the south-east point, the shore line for one mile and a half north- 

 ward passes along the base of a steep cut bank of boulder claj', con- 

 taining an admixture of sand, and varying in elevation from forty to 

 sixty feet. From here the shore turns westward, passing around a 

 bay, one mile and three-quarters wide by one mile and a half deep; 

 the cut bank runs one mile farther inland ; low mud flats, covered 

 partly with small blackish ponds, occur between it and high water mark. 

 Again approaching the shore on the north side of this bay the escarp- 

 ment gradually changes to low rounded hills sloping inland, composed 

 chiefly of boulders, with a shore line as far as the north point formed 

 of numerous boulder points with low muddy bays between, covered 

 with grasses. 



Between the north and west points, four miles, is an escarpment, 

 composed of boulder clay and gravel, forty feet high, running parallel 

 to a shore, alternating between boulder points and sandy bays. From 

 west to south-west point the shore line is low and of the same character 

 as that above, with the ground rising slowly inland. Along the south 



