DOWLING. 
INTRODUCTION 
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sli^(ht bay or curve in tlie shore line. In latitude 51* the shore takes 
a curve to tfie west, forming a point and, as the tree-line curves to the 
north-west from here, this is probably Point Mourning, the fir-st wood, 
ed point south of Cape Henrietta Maria. Several small streams flow 
into this bay. Tho first is called by the Indian.s, Nowashe river — the 
next Patfhipawapoko — then the largest along this coast, the Opiuna- 
gan, followed by the last stream Nikitowasaki, fifteen miles north of 
the Opinnagan, The latitude of the niout-h of Opirinugan river, by 
observation, is 54° 12' 24'. 
The bay to the south of Cape Henrietta Maria is shallow and inudd}’- 
with wide mad fiabs, but near the extreme eastern end of the cape, 
the shore is reported to lie bolder, and limestone beds are .said to out- 
crop at high tide mark, 'fhese are probably continuations of those 
found on the Ekwan and Attawapiskat rivers to the south-west. 
'riie timber along the coa.st gradually becomes smaller in going north, 
ward and the tree line recedes from the shore, leaving it finally at the 
Opiunugan, .so that the country bohiml the. cape is more or less an 
open plain. The shore, where tho trees are at a distance from the 
beach, is generally an even mud .slope, covered above liigh tide with 
grass, followed by a wide belt of stunted gray willows which give an 
appeai-Huce like the sage hush of the plains. Behind this, a few isolated 
spruces of .small size appear before the tree-line is reached. In sailing 
along this coa.st, if is impossible to know which way to steer so a.s to 
run parallel to the land as nothing is to he seen ahead by which to 
.shape one's cour.se. 
Fnr hearing Animals and Game. 
'Ihe tides along this narrow shore are not regular in their amount Ftiac and faiB 
of rise and fall, which is determined in a great measure by the direc- 
tion and strength of the wind. Froni the Kkwnn river northward, the 
high tide appears he about .six and a half hour.s after the moon’s 
meridian piis.sage — the flood and ebb running seven and five hours 
respectively, while U) the south of tho .shallow ground between Akim- 
iski island and the mainland, the Hood comes from the south and is 
much earlier. Ifigh tide at Lowasky river occur.N at between two and 
a half and three hours, and at Albany about the same, 'The flood 
tide at I.<owa8ky river runs four hours and the ebb eight. At Albany 
the flood runs five hours and the ebb .seven. At the outer bar at 
Moose river the tides are from half an hour to an hour earlier. 
