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headwaters are rather sluggish streams which are separated
in part by a rather low divide from Yakoun River drainage.
The tributaries of the upper Honna from the west, crossing the
trail between Camps Fourmile and Robertson, are swift little
streams, tumbling from the end of the high ridge running east
from Mount Etheline. This ridge is composed of massive
Cretaceous sandstones and conglomerates, and the influence of
the bedrock on the topography is well shown in the way that
the drainage radiates from this area of resistant rocks, the trunk
streams—Brent creek and the Honna river—flowing in valleys
excavated in softer, shaly beds.

Brent creek is a large eastern branch of the Yakoun river
and collects the drainage of the highland around Camp Robertson.
Rising in the hills nearly 2 miles south of the camp, it flows
northeast, north, and finally due west around the base of the
highland on which Camp Robertson is situated.

The valleys of Yakoun lake, Baddeck river, and Yakoun
river show evidence of topographic readjustment due to glacial
action. It may be noted on the map, that Yakoun river, the
outlet of Yakoun lake, flows not from the northern end of the
lake, but from Etheline bay, on the eastern side, and makes its
exit almost at the point at which Etheline creek enters. The
lake is surrounded by rock walls, usually steep except around
Etheline bay, and at the northern end of the lake. The shores
of Etheline bay are low and swampy, and the northern end of
Yakoun lake is dammed by low, hummocky, wooded hills ap-
parently of glacial drift, simulating moraine topography. The
Baddeck river occupies a wide valley, the direct continuation
of the Yakoun River valley, and flows in a braided channel over
much of its course. For the upper 3 miles of its course the
Yakoun river is crooked and sluggish, but below the grade
steepens slightly. The presence of numerous islets in the lake
is evidence that it occupies a rather shallow basin.

To explain the origin of Yakoun lake, and the facts given
above the hypothesis is advanced that the Yakoun valley below
the present north end of the lake was filled with glacial debris,
carried down by small local glaciers, the sites of some of which
are now represented by cirque-like depressions and hanging