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followed along its west shore to the south end. From there a river was 
followed southwest. The hills of granitic rocks rise here to a height of 
about 40 feet. Inside of a mile a small lake expansion was entered, beyond 
it the river, after a sharp turn to the east, bears south for approximately 
3 miles with numerous open rapids on the way, then turns abruptly east 
and after a broad curve toward the southwest opens out into a lake about 
5 miles long with an average width of a mile and trending southwest. Camp 
was made just before entering the lake. 
On April 20 the lake was travelled to the southern end and what 
appeared to be a river bed was followed south-southwest to where it was 
lost among low hills. Proceeding southward, a long, narrow lake bearing 
southeast was entered and followed. The country here is rugged, though 
the hills are not more than about 30 feet high. They are close-set with 
narrow, tortuous, intervening valleys deep in snow and littered with 
boulders. From the lake a due south course was followed and in the 
evening camp was made about 36 miles south of Nettilling lake. At this 
point the country is more open and gently rolling, the ridges wider spaced, 
and the valley broad and shallow. This bettered travelling, which had 
been slow and difficult over the rock-strewn ridges farther north. This 
section of country appears to be entirely destitute of game. In the two 
days’ journey not a single track was observed. 
On April 21 the morning temperature was 2 degrees below zero. After 
travelling 13 miles south over gently rolling land, the north end of Amad- 
juak lake was seen in the distance, with dark walls on the west afterwards 
found to be limestone cliffs. Nearby to the southwest lay two conical 
hills. Camp w T as made 4 miles south of them. 
On April 22, after travelling 2 miles about southwest, the west shore 
of Amadjuak lake was reached. The land is low and gradually falls to 
lake-level. Nine miles of good travelling south along the lake brought 
the party to the escarpment seen the day before and which proved to be 
of flat-lying Palceozoic limestone rising with a cliff face varying from 25 
to 60 feet in height. The face is nearly a mile long. Other cliffs of varying 
lengths occur along the coast. The limestone is exposed, also, in ledges 
of a few feet in many places along the low valleys. The land back from 
the lake rises in long, gently rolling ridges to a height of 100 feet or more. 
There were collected from the limestone a few concretionary-like nodules 
and some fossils since determined by Miss A. E. Wilson to be poorly pre- 
served bryozoa and in one case Illaenus sp. indicative of an Upper Ordovician 
or Silurian age. 
In the afternoon of April 22 a southeast course over the lake and away 
from the shore was followed for 10 miles and camp made there. The 
low northern coast many miles away and trending southeast w r as visible 
from camp, but no land could be seen to the east. The Eskimo say that 
the lake extends a long distance in that direction. Mr. W. T. Lopp, who 
also was in this district in April, 1925, states that a deep bay in the north- 
east coast extends towards Cumberland sound for perhaps 50 or 60 miles. 
According to Major T. L. Burwash, who in the spring of 1924 had made 
the journey from Cumberland sound to Amadjuak bay, there is at the foot 
of the lake a deep bay extending many miles northwest and from whose 
head Amadjuak river flow T s northward. 
On April 23, a course about south -south west was followed for 16 miles 
to a low point on the east shore. Flat-lying limestone forms a low face 
