Excerpt from Report on an Exploration of the East Coast of Hudson Bay, From Cape Wolstenholme to the South End of James Bay The coast to the southward of the East Main river is even lower than that to the northward, and the rocks only come out on shore in a few places. Islands are less numerous, and towards the mouth of Rupert bay are largely formed of drift. Sherricks mount, which marks the eastern entrance to Rupert bay, is a peninsula with a cone shaped hill about 700 feet high, and it forms the most striking land mark of James bay. To the southward of the East Main river the whole bottom of James' bay has been silted up with sand and mud brought down by the large rivers flewing into its southern part, and in consequence, wide flats extend far out from shore, increasing in width as Rupert bay is approached, so that in that bay the only navigable parts are in the channels cut out by the currents of the rivers flowing into it, and even these rarely have a depth exceeding ten feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.