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flats. SO that it cannot be entered even by canoes except at hiffh tide. 
Here theliij^hor beach rul^e is near the timber line and a mud flat ex- 
tends out 200 yaivls to a second gravel ridge which has boon formed 
in front by the liigh tides A lower ridge is now being formed in 
advance of this again, but it is co\ ered by the Idghest tide. When 
tiic tide is out, it dries or nneovtu’S to beyond the high gravel bar oppo- 
•site, or to the north of the mouth of the river. The evening wo ar- 
rived at this place, the Indians who were camped there pointed out to 
us a white object un the bar and by examination with the glass it 
proN ed to lx; a wandering wliite hn;ir w Inch liad come, ashore, on a 
piece of ice. Our friend.s were rather nervous over the matter, hut the 
animal had di.sappoared by morning, and the oidy other traces of this 
species were some tracks that w'ero seen along tiie .shore farther to the 
north. 
.Swoii nver Northw'ard from tin's brook there is a slight bend in the coast to the 
west to form a shallow bay and at altout ten miles from tlie brook a 
fair sized stream called loojilly Wabishew Sipi (Swan river) et»ter.s 
the bay. 'L’he .slmreof this bay is ilanked in many places by sand rid- 
ges, Init as we passed at low tide we saw only part of tlic sliore, and 
the mouth of the river being ut a distance was hard to make out. As 
the shore here is Ijacked by a uniform line of .small spruce trees, varied 
ciccasiona'Iy by higher bunches or groups, a grove of poplar wdjich 
show.s on the left bank of the stream when oppo.site, is about the only 
indication of the presence here of a river. Northward from thi.s 
stream the §hore hemls .slightly to the cast again, and a point sixteen 
miles north of the river is in the same longitude as the mouth of ihe 
biook which comes from the Ekw.an river. At eight miles from Itaft 
river, gravel har.s that form small island.s at lialf tiflo, run out from 
the shore to the souihea.sl, and behind tlm.se the sliore ridge for a sliort 
distance is wanting, ami the mud slopes up gradually to a gra.s.sy flat. 
The tree line of small spruce follows the shore pretty closely for about 
fifteen miles north, but it then leaves the be.acli and turns to tlio north 
west. 
The points are men'ly high gravel ridge.s, wliich are formed parallel 
to the shore in an irregular order. The intervals between are con- 
nected by lower ridges formings loops. .Anotbor series is also found in 
a few jilaces near the tree-line lielonging (o an earlier set. Small 
streams are found ninningout by thegaps in (he .shore ridges and afford 
camping places hotw’cen the mouths of the larger stream.s. At f liirty 
miles north of the Raft river two high sand bars or small island-s are 
again seen near the shore. 
