LOW.] 



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Similar pink and grey hornblende mica gneisses were seen on all 

 the portages to the fifteenth, where they occur associated with grey 

 hornblende gneiss, holding porphyritic crystals of grey felspar, like 

 that described on the Big River. 



On the portage from Pi-a-go-chi Lake the rock is chiefly composed 

 of a tine compact pink graphitic gneiss, made up of orthoclase and 

 quartz, with very small quantities of mica and hornblende. The 

 quartz and orthoclase are arranged in alternate lamina* averaging one- 

 eighth of an inch in thickness. Strike N. 77° W. 



On the next portage are similar rocks along with coarse-grained 

 pink micaceous gneiss. Strike S. 87° W. 



South Branch of the Bishop Roytjan River. 



The name Bishop Koggan is a corruption of the Indian word pi-chip- 

 oui-an, meaning fishing weir, from the immense willow weirs, with 

 basket sluices, built across the stream by the Indians to catch fish 

 descending the river. 



Lake Ab-pi cho-ti-na-chits, as before stated, is a large irregular body Description of 

 of water, full of islands and indented with many deep bays, the shape branch. 

 and size of which can only be ascertained by surveys of each, taking 

 more time than could be afforded on a hurried trip over so extensive 

 an area of country. From the last portage the route passes northward 

 one mile and a half down a narrow bay, to a long, low point, crossed by 

 a portage of six chains in length. Thence an irregular course between 

 islands is followed for four miles in a general N.E. course to the outlet, 

 where the river, fifty yards wide, is descended three-quarters of a mile, 

 past a small rapid to Lake Ko-tan-i-wau-an. This is another large lake 

 covered with islands, the river flowing out of its northwest end. Its 

 south-eastern shore was followed, two miles and three-quarters to the 

 mouth of a small branch stream. The country around these lakes is 

 comparatively flat, with low rounded gneiss hills, rising at intervals 

 from fifty to one hundred feet above the swampy low lands. 



The route passes up the small branch on a directly east course for 

 three miles and a quarter to a fall eight feet high, where the river is 

 ten yards wide. Between the fall and the lake below, the river, with 

 an average breadth of two hundred yards, flows between low rocky 

 hills, which rise from the water's edge, forming an irregular shore line- 

 Above the fall, the valley is wider, the river or lake, here averaging 

 four hundred yards in width, is broken into a great number of small 

 bays, by low narrow points extending out from the base of the rocky 



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