For half a mile or more at its lower end the lake is
narrow and shoal. Its bed is a mass of jagged rocks, many of which
rise so near to the surface that it was a work of art to find a way
among them. A low point ran out north on our left, and from this
point to the eastern shore stretched a long line of boulders rising
at intervals from the water. This line marks the edge of the
shallows, and beyond it the lake is deep and broad and stretches
away northeast for more than eight miles of its length, when it
bends to the northwest.
As we entered it we saw that the low range of wooded hills on our
left formed the western boundary of the lake, and over the flat
wooded shore on the right we could see the tops of big, barren
hills of a range stretching northward. These are a continuation of
the round-topped hills which border the east shore of Michikamau
south of where the lake narrows. For some miles of our journey up
northern Michikamau we could see these hills miles back from the
low shoreline. Now we seemed to be turning towards them again.
Beyond a point one mile and a quarter north from where we entered
the lake a deep bay runs in to the east, and here the hills came
into plain view though they were still far back from the shore.
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