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Archaean hills which makeup about one-third of the entire area, all of Root crops, 

 which would make excellent grass land. The best portion of it is Qoocl graz ; ng 

 along the river bottoms, and on the islands and banks. land- 



Eleven large and many smaller rivers flow into James' Bay ; on theRi vers . 

 west side are the Equan, Attawapishcat, Albany, and Moose rivers; on 

 the south, Hannah Bay or Harracanaw, and the Nottaway rivers ; on the • 



east, the Bupert, East Main, Old Factory, Big and Bishop Boggan rivers. 

 The water-shed of the country on the west side runs in a south-west 

 direction from Cape Henrietta Maria, and consequently the rivers to 

 the southward, having greater drainage areas, are the largest and 

 longest. 



The first river to the south of Cape Henrietta Maria is Baft Biver, 

 an inconsiderable stream, the outlet of Baft Lake ; it reaches the sea in 

 lat. 54° 04'. 



The next river is the Equan, a much larger stream, which takes its 

 rise 300 miles to the westward, at the watershed between it and the 

 Winesk Biver, flowing north; it enters the bay at lat. 53° 38'. 



About lat. 53° 24' are the two mouths of the Attawapishcat Biver, 

 which rises over four hundred miles inland, near the source of the east 

 branch of the Severn Biver. It flows north, and drains an extensive 

 area of unexplored country between the Equan and Albany rivers. 



The Kapiscow Biver is a smaller stream entering the Bay at lat. 

 53° 05'. 



The next important stream to the southward is the Albany Biver, the 

 longest and largest on the west side of James Bay. 



This river, one hundred and forty miles in a straight line south-west 

 from its mouth, divides into two branches. The north or main branch 

 comes from the west; it takes its rise a short distance from the head- 

 waters of the English Biver, in Cat or Cat-fish Lake, about one hundred 

 miles north-west of Lake St. Joseph, through which it flows, and which 

 flows into Lake Winnipeg. The south or Ivenogami Branch flows from 

 Long Lake, thirty miles from the north shore of Lake Superior. At its 

 mouth the Albany spreads out and flows between a number of low r 

 swampy islands, forming a delta twenty-three miles long and ten miles 

 broad between the mouths of its channels, the most southward of which 

 empties into the sea in lat. 52° 12'. 



At the south-west angle of the Bay is the wide mouth of Moose 

 Biver, whose branches drain all the country to the south-west and 

 south, from the rivers flowing into the eastern portion of Lake Superior 

 and the headwaters of the Ottawa. The western or Missinaibie 

 branch flows out of Missinaibie Lake, at the head of the Michipicoten 

 Biver, within fifty miles of Lake Superior; the middle or Metagami 

 branch flows from the south, and drains the country north of the 



