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■Charleton or False Chavleton, but named Trodiley Island in Capt. Coates' 

 notes. 



This island is very similar in composition and size to the larger 

 Strutton Island, except that it is made up of finer material and fewer 

 boulders than that island. Its greatest length from east to west is 

 five miles and a-half, with an average breadth of one mile. The 

 north-east part of the island is the highest, and rises fifty feet above 

 the sea. On the eastern half of its south side is a raised beach of sand 

 and gravel ten feet high, extending from the water inland from one to 

 three hundred yards, to a steep sloping bank of sand and boulders 

 twenty feet higher, after which the land gradually rises towards the 

 interior. The western part of the south shore is low and sandy and 

 gradually rises inland towards the east, with no cut banks ; the western 

 extremity ends in a low, narrow boulder point half a mile long. The 

 north shore is covered with boulders or coarse gravel, except short 

 stretches in the bottom of the small bays which are sandy. Beyond 

 the middle of the north shore, and from there to the east point the 

 island rises abruptly inland, having banks of thirty to forty -feet, com- 

 posed almost wholly of small and large boulders mixed with quantities 

 of clay and sand, from the base of which issue small streams of clear .Springs. 

 cold water. 



The western end of the island is devoid of trees, and shows a barren, 

 sandy soil covered with low arctic plants, with numerous large boulders 

 strewn over the surface. The south-eastern portion is covered with 

 small white spruce trees, not more than ten inches in diameter at the 

 base and less than forty feet in height, which grow in open glades, the 

 sandy soil here being covered with deep moss. 



About halfway between the Struttons and Little Charleton are two 

 small low islands composed of sand and boulders, with low willows 

 growing on their highest parts, many sand and boulder shoals also are 

 to be seen in this part of the bay. 



Twenty-two miles distant, on a N. 35° W. course from the east point Weston island, 

 of Little Charleton Island, is the next high island, with its north end 

 in lat. 52° 30' 32", called Weston Island on the present chart of the 

 Hudson Bay Company ; this island is named Solomon's Temple in Capt. 

 Coats' notes, while four low islands a few miles to the northward, at 

 present marked Solomon's Temple, he calls Lord Weston's Islands; it 

 is proposed to return to the old names, and call the large bold island 

 Solomon's Temple and the low islands Weston Islands. 



Solomon's Temple is a narrow island eight miles long from north to s i omon - a 

 south in the form of a crescent, convex on the west side, and terminat- Tem P le - 

 ing in long, narrow points made up of immense numbers of boulders 

 packed tightly together. On the west side, rising gradually from 



