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5“ The Laurentian rocks [at Sandwich Bay] rise into high, rugged, and broken syenitic 
hummocks."— Packard, l. c. 281 (1891). 
6 “ We pass St. Lewis Bay . . . .with its north shore evidently syenitic....the headlands 
of syenite probably extend out from the gneiss mainland."— Packard, l. c. 137 (1891). 
7“ At Seal Island the ‘Domino gneiss’ of Lieber appears, protected seaward by high 
islands intermixed with low gneiss ‘ skiers?."— Packard, 1. c. 158 (1901). 
8 “Cape Webuc or Harrison, which is a lofty gneiss headland, faced with syenite,”— 
Packard, 1. c. 181 (1901). 
9 "The island on which Hopedale is situated is of the ordinary Laurentian gneiss 
which behind the mission house is curiously contorted; it is fine-grained, distinctly 
banded, with veins of quartz and of granite."— Packard, l. c. 206 (1901). 
10 “On going ashore at Ford's Harbour [Paul's Island], I found the gneiss to consist 
of common reddish and greyish varieties.” —Bell, Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Can., Rep. 
of Progr. for 1882-83-84, p. 11 DD (1884). 
11 “ The rock here [Nain] consists of a rather light grey gneiss.’’— Bell, 1. c. 12 DD. 
12 ** At this mission station [Hebron], the rocks were examined and found to be common 
biotite gneiss and amphibolites, intersected by trap dykes."— Daly, Bull. Mus. Comp. 
Zool., Harvard, Geol. Ser. V. no. 5, 216 (1902). 
13 “ The rock everywhere [Ungava Bay at Port Burwell] consists of ordinary varieties 
of gneiss.’’— Bell, 1. c. 18 DD (1901). 
14 “Dr. Boas describes the nucleus of the mountain masses [Baffin Land] as every- 
where gneiss and granite."— G. M. Dawson, Geol Surv. Can., Ann. Rep. n. s. ii, 40 R 
(1887). 
15 “I explored the country [Nottingham Island] to a distance of about three miles in 
various directions from our anchorage, and found the rocks to consist of common varieties 
of gneiss, the only exception noticed being patches of a fine-grained red syenite on both 
sides of the inlet." — Bell, l. c. 28 DD (1901). 
16 “ The rocks on the west side of Ashe's Inlet consist of dark grey gneiss, composed 
principally of quartz and felspar in even beds....The rocks in the vicinity of the bay 
[Stupart's Bay, Prince of Wales Sound] were found to consist entirely of Laurentian 
gneiss."— Bell, 1. c. 21, 25, DD (1901). 
17 “It [Richmond Gulf] is surrounded by high hills. On the west, sharp cliffs, formed 
by the broken faces of the Manitonieck rocks [felspathic argillites], which dip toward 
the sea, rise in places twelve hundred feet above the water. The south and east sides 
are bounded by lower rounded hills of Laurentian and Huronian rocks."— Low, Geol. 
Surv. Can., Ann. Rep. n. s., iii. 55 J (1888). 
18 At the fifteen foot chute [Great Whale River] the rock is similar to the last, and 
from here to the mouth of the river all the exposures examined were made up of red 
and grey hornblende orthoclase gneiss, the red predominating."— Low, 1l, c. 54 J (1888). 
19 “ The greater part of the shore-line here [west side of Lake Mistassini] being formed 
of gneiss, perpendicular faces are wanting."— Low, l. c. viii. 68 L (1896). 
20 “ The rock [at Port Churchill] is a greenish-gray even-grained, false-bedded, felspathic 
arkose sandstone.’’— Tyrrell, Geol. Surv. Can., Ann. Rep. n. s. ix. 90 F (1897). 
21 “ Granites and gneisses occur along the north shore of Baker Lake, and down both 
shores of Chesterfield Inlet to its mouth."— Tyrrell, l. c. ix. 169 F (1897). 
22 “The rocks of the southeast extremity of McTavish Bay [southeastern arm of 
Great Bear Lake] are described as red granites and gneisses."— G. M. Dawson, l. c. 19. 
*23' Near the easternmost [channel of Slave River], which is named John's River 
(Rivière à Jean), is Stony Island, a naked mass of granite, rising fifty or sixty feet above 
the water; and beyond that, to the eastward, the banks of the lake [Great Slave Lake] 
are wholly primitive,"— Richardson, Arct. Searching Exped. 97 (1852). 
24 “ They [Laurentian rocks] occupy most of the northern shores of Athabasca and 
Black Lakes. Throughout the greater portion of the area, the rock consists of light 
reddish-gray hornblende-granite, and biotite-granite or granitoid gneiss."— Tyrrell, 
l. c. viii. 16 D (1896). 
"In the second or barren ground district, in places where the soil is formed of the 
coarse sandy debris of granite. . . .Rhododendron lapponicum, Kalmia glauca [polifolia], 
Vaccinium uliginosum, Empetrum nigrum, Ledum palustre, Arbutus [Arctostaphylos] Uva 
ursi, Andromeda [Cassiope] tetragona, and several depressed or creeping willows, lie 
close to the soil,"— Richardson, l. c. 416 (1852). 
