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the peninsula between Kangerdluksoak and Saeglek Bay and were 

 carried by Eskimos across the latter inlet from the Pangnertok (see 

 Weiz's map in Packard's " The Labrador Coast, p. 226). Thence they 

 walked to Ramah Bay, were most hospitably received by the mission- 

 aries and after a much needed rest, went once more overland to their 

 destination. They report that until they had reached a point three or 

 four miles north of Saeglek Bay (at about 04° W. Long.), they passed 

 over gneisses similar to those seen at Hebron. Then bands of black 

 slate alternating with quartzite were met with. Soon continuous slates 

 with interbedded sandstones and quartz breccias were crossed, and these 

 persisted to a point some four miles north of Ramah Bay. Thence the 

 route carried them over schists equivalent in character to those found 

 on both sides of Nachvak Bay. The sediments are highly indurated, 

 and often somewhat metamorphosed. Neither the quartzites nor the 

 greatly cleaved and pyritiferous slates yielded fossils to the travellers, 

 who were constantly on the lookout for them. What seems to be a con- 

 tinuation of the same sedimentary terrane was seen by the writer, though 

 at a distance, in the form of ragged black cliffs fifteen hundred feet or 

 more in height, lying southwest of Gulch Cape. The massifs correspond- 

 ing are tabular, with very low dips and are plainly stratified. Kohl- 

 meister and Kmoch mention the Ramah slates in the narrative of their 

 journey in 1811. 



Observations in and about Nachvak Bay. Topography and Scenery. 

 — At dawn on August 21st, the "Brave" was lying-to about six miles 

 from Gulch Cape waiting for daylight before the not particularly safe 

 passage of the Nachvak Narrows could be attempted. As we drew 

 nearer the shore, a brilliant sun flooded with light a scene most impres- 

 sive to us who were fresh from the softened outlines of the southern 

 coast and from the yet more featureless landscapes of southern New 

 England. In front stood the bold fifteen hundred-foot headland whose 

 many ravines have given the cape its name. Just west of it rose a 

 curiously regular hill of about the same height, as typical a cone as one 

 could well imagine, yet apparently an erosion form derived from the 

 destruction of crystalline schists. To the right of the cone, a long east 

 and west ridge, estimated at twenty-five hundred feet in height, claimed 

 instant attention, as it represented, better than any part of the Torngats 

 yet seen, that serrate topography which Bell and others have emphasized 

 in the descriptions of the region. It is a knife-edged sierra, trenched 

 on either flank and from top to bottom by a score of deep transverse 

 ravines. In the background, visible through two U-shaped notches, 



