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small lakes, being preserved by the Hudson Bay Company, who claim 

 to have introduced them, and only allow them to be hunted every 

 third or fourth year. The small lakes are favourite breeding places 

 for ducks and grey geese, which find good feeding grounds on the low 

 grassy flats along the shore, ptarmigan also breed on this island, it 

 being their southward limit around Hudson Bay. 



Danb}^ Island, as before mentioned, is distant two-thirds of a mile 

 from the southern portion of the east side of Charleton Island. It is 

 roughly triangular in shape, each side having a length of two miles ; 

 one side lies parallel to Charleton, with its middle directly opposite 

 House Point. Its shores are low and made up chiefly of sand and 

 boulders, with muddy stretches between the points, and a raised bar of 

 sand and boulders formed by ice, similar to that on the south side of 

 Charleton, runs around the island near high water mark. Shoal water 

 extends out from the north, east and south sides for long distances. 

 The interior of the island is low and swampy, covered with a thick 

 growth of small black spruce and tamarac, with a few balsam poplar. 



Cary Island lies two miles north-east of Danby and three miles eastCary island, 

 from the north-east point of Charleton. It is four miles long from 

 north to south, with an average breadth of one mile. On the western 

 side the island is low and swampy, gradually rising inland. On its 

 south, east and north sides are escarpments rising in the highest parts 

 seventy feet above the sea. On the east side a raised beach of some 

 fifteen feet in elevation runs along the shore, and extends inland from 

 one to four hundred j'ards to an escarpment fifty feet higher, which 

 has a face and top almost wholly composed of water worn boulders, 

 averaging nine inches in diameter, and without glacial striae; they are 

 packed tightly together in a condition similar to that shown by boul- 

 ders on shoals at present, acted upon by the grounding and shoving of 

 large masses of ice over them. 



On the north and south sides, the face of the escarpment is largely 

 composed of sandy clay with large numbers of boulders scattered 

 through the mass. The island on its lower parts is wooded with black 

 and white spruce and a few white birch and poplar, the top of the 

 boulder escarpment is devoid of trees, and has a very barren appear- 

 ance. 



Lying N, G5° E. seven miles from the north-east point of Charleton The strutton 

 is the western end of two small islands called the Struttons. islands. 



The western or larger island is five miles long from east to west, one 

 mile and a-half broad in the middle, and tapering to a point at either 

 end; the smaller island is nearly round, with a diameter of one 

 mile and a-half. The deep channel with its strong current that passes 

 through the Sound between Charleton, Danby, and Cary islands con- 



