DOWLING. 
HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 
13 F 
Amplitiule, is about sixt-eene degrees. A most shoald and perilous 
coast, in wliich there is not one Harbour to be found.' 
He did not follow the shore far to the south of the cape, but made 
out to the Bear i.slands and so on to the south end of Charlton island, 
where he wintered. Returning in the summer (1G32) he landed at 
the cape and set up a cro.ss with the arras of the king and of the city 
of Bristol. 
The eastern face of the point seems to have deeper water off it than 
along the north shore, as James anchored in six fathoms about a mile 
from the .shore. He reports a long shoal point running out to the 
northward or north-east. 
In a publication by the Haklyut .Society entitled * The Geography D»»*rn'ption of 
of Hudsons Buy ' by Cap!. Coats (an officer with the H. B. Co. fi'otn river 
1727-1731), the de.scription of the coast from Severn river to Cape 
Henrietta Maria in writ ten for the information of sailors, but in it is Marin by 
given some imiicution of the character of the land a.^ well. The follow- 
ing extracts from the above work give the main part of Coats’ descrip, 
tion (nci! pp. 40-02.) 
‘ From Severn river to Cape Henrietta ^laria, in latitude 55" 10' N., 
the course is K. S. E., to westward of which in 55” .30' near Cape T^ook- 
out is some broken ground, banks and ridges a great way off, come no 
nearer than seventeen fatham ; the land very low and fenny, appears 
here and there in tufts of tre<‘. 
To southward of the Cape the land runs S. S, E., very low but clean 
even soundings with wood in some places. The shore is Hatt a good 
ways off.’ 
‘ . . . .Near the same latitude (54* 38' to 54* 28 ) on the west main 
is a bluff of wood, called Point .Mourning, from the burying of one of Mourning. 
Captain James men there. 'I'hfi laiul to northwarvl of this, and west- 
ward of the Cape is .all a low f<*nny unbounded marsh, not to be 
seen but in fine weather, .so your lead is your principal guide.' 
The topography of this coast and of the western side of .fanu^s bay 
has been but roughly sketched by these navigators and little altered 
by HuV).set|Uont ones. The streauis draining to Hud.son bay, as also 
those flowing eastward, were mapped from sketches made by v.arious 
officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company. The route through Sutton 
lakes, by the Little Kkwan river was sketcheil by Mr. Thos. Bunn in 
1803. Later, a route to the Winisk via the W.ashagarqi branch of the 
Ekwan was mapped from a track-survey or sketch by Mr. Geo. Taylor 
in 1808. This latter route is not used by the Indians of the present 
