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steadily for eleven miles, to another rapid of twenty feet, where w< 

 camped. As far as the Cat portage, the river flows between clay 

 banks from twenty to forty feel bigh, densely wooded with large 

 poplar ami white spruce ; below this, the country became very flal and 

 swampy, covered with Bmall black spruce, tamarac and Becond-growth 

 poplar. General course travelled during the day, N 7" W 



3rd — started early to-day, running the Plum-pudding rapid, one 

 and a-half miles long, with fifteen feet fall, and thence two miles to 

 Smoke Hill rapid, having a fall of twenty-five feet, and passed bya 

 portage of ono mile. Below, the river runs with a moderate current 

 for ten miles, when the Ias1 rapid, one mile long, with ten feel fall, full 

 of large boulders, was run, and Rupert House, one mile below, was 

 reached. 

 ,. 1IKI , Houge Rupert House is situated a1 the mouth of the river, which empties 

 into Ruperl Bay, an extension of James Bay. 



At this point the river has a width of upwards of one mile, and dis- 

 charges a volume of water estimated equal to that of the Ottawa River 



at Ottawa. 



The country between Plum-Pudding Rapid and the mouth of the 

 river is very flat and Bwampy, covered with only a fair growth ol 

 timber. The soil is chiefly a heavy clay, and i- generally too wet and 

 cold for agricultural purposes. 



At Rupert House, garden vegetables are cultivated with fair success 

 barley i- also grown, but seldom ripens, owing to the shortness of the 

 season and frosts during the summer. At Rupert House our season's 

 Return to work was completed, and we hastened to return to Ottawa. We were 

 not able to leave, however, until the 9th, when we crossed the fool of 

 James May to Moose Factory, a distance of one hundred and twenty 

 miles, in a large canoe, with six men. The water of the bay is very 

 -hallow . so much bo, that when the tide is "itt. nothing but mud Hats 

 can be -ecu. 



Having been delayed by high winds, Moose Factor} was not reached 



until the 14th. Having here changed our canoe for a smaller one. 



with three men, we started ii)i the Moose River next day, and reached 

 Dog Lake, at the Height of Land, on the 29th. Here taking the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, we arrived in Ottawa October 2nd. 



Geological Notbs. 



With the exception of the comparatively small area- of Huronian 

 ami Cambrian rocks, found in the vicinity of Lake Mistassini, the Lau- 

 rentian gneisses and associated rocks occupy the whole country from 

 the Gulf ol St. Lawrence to James Bay, along the route traversed U 

 tld- expedition. Of these lorks, the red gneiss, composed ol 



