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EKWAN KIVER 
Mouth of 
Albany river. 
Slioals. 
Dexcription 
of shore north 
from Ekwan 
river. 
Swan river. 
gravel, with a few boulders showing on the surface. From Noinan.s- 
land to the Albany river the shore is very flat, and at low tide the mud 
shoals extend out for several miles. 
The Albany river, like the Aloose, is divided at its mouth into three 
channfds. The trading establishment and mi.ssion are situated on an 
island on the nortb .“ide of the .southern channel. North of this island 
is the broad opening called locally, North river. This ha.s a long bar 
at its mouth, similar in position to the tihip .''ands at .Moose. The 
southern entrance to this is the larger, and it seems to be much deeper 
than the channel going to the settlement. The small ohunnel north 
of the bar is sh.allow at low water and has a bar outside on which w e 
found a depth, at high tide, of very little over one fathom. Very 
shoal w'ater, in wdiich boulders appear, extend.s northward beyond 
Nottashay point and boats are obliged to keep nearly out of sight of 
land to e.scape the sliouks. Chickaney river, which enters north of the 
Albany, is said to be another channel from the same river. 
Shoals were observed well out fruvu .shore to near tlie Kapiskau 
river. In the inner water between Akimiski island and the mainland 
there .seems to be a maximum flepth of about two fathoms. 'I'his 
shoals gradually to one fathom at n <Iistance of three mile.s from either 
shore. The mainland is generally without a beach and Ijeiweon the 
w<x>d.s and the lido-line is a wide flat covered witli ^rass. The north- 
we.st part of Akirniski island approaches the mainland much closer 
than is .shown on the map.?, and a number of ghoals are scattered from 
hence to the point south of the Ekwan river. 'I’he boat channel, ac- 
cording to our guide, runs to the west of the two islands which here 
lie off the shore. The position of the mouth of the Ekwan river ac- 
cording to .several observations, is in latitude olF 14’ 0". 
.Northward from the Ekwan, the shore, for a longdistance, is flanked 
by high gravel bars, l)Ut at low tides a Vjroad belt of mud exten*ls out 
several miles, so that travelling along this coast with canoes i.s very 
unpleasant should the time of high water be in the middle of the day 
or night. Landing on the beach without a long “ carry ” through the 
mud is only possible at high tide. 
The rivers that enter the hay between Niahkow point and Cape 
Ifenrietta Maria are not large and, as the former maps are mere sket- 
ches, it is ditFicult to locate those wliich arc not known by a local In- 
dian name. The first stream north of the Kkwnn Is a small channel 
said to lie a branch from that river. It is marked by two gravel bars 
to til? north about a mile from the beach. Sw'an river, which is per- 
haps Raft river of the map, enters in latitude hS” 30'. It is in a 
