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appeared the stratified tables already referred to. Still farther to the 

 north, the view included a lofty wall four miles long, interrupted by 

 deep clefts and by one strong valley-notch. It ends abruptly at the 

 Narrows of Nachvak Bay. About five hundred yards from the Narrows 

 we lay some time becalmed close beside this cliff (the eastern slope of 

 Karmarsuit), one of the grandest on the coast. It was estimated at 

 approximately two thousand feet in altitude. With an angle of slope 

 of about eighty degrees, with neither vegetation nor talus, it surpasses in 

 its wild severity many more celebrated precipices of the world. About 

 three miles northeast of the Narrows, a very perfect imitatiou of a 

 volcanic cone was photographed and is here reproduced in Plate 5. Esti- 

 mates gave the upper lip of the " crater " a height of two thousand feet 

 above the sea; the depression itself a depth of one thousand feet or 

 thereabouts. The amphitheatre seems to be an unusually good speci- 

 men of the glacial cirques which we were to find in great numbers 

 wherever we had a chance to view the Torngats. Lieber noticed the 

 frequency of similar forms on Aulatsivik Island. Finally, on the ex- 

 treme right of the view, some fifteen miles from Gulch Cape, the coast 

 was outlined by a sierra, " Mt. Razorback " (4000 feet, est.), one of the 

 most rugged and most alpine, though not among the loftiest, members 

 of the mountain-system. 



Among the maps of Nachvak Bay which have yet been published, 

 that of Weiz * is the best. While on board the schooner or in the skiff 

 used in sounding, the writer made a rough sketch of the inlet which is 

 believed to represent still more closely its true form. (Plate 12). For 

 purposes of orientation, the Eskimo names for the more important 

 landmarks have been inserted. These names we owe to Mr. George 

 Ford, the Hudson's Bay agent at Nachvak, who, in this as in all other 

 matters, was unwearied in affording us information about the country. 

 The spelling of the names furnished by Rev. A. Stecker, originally in 

 German, is phonetic after the sound of English vowels and consonants, 

 and hence differs in a few instances from that adopted by Weiz. 2 



i See Packard, " The Labrador Coast," p. 226. 



2 The following is a glossary of names appearing in the sketch-map of 

 Nachvak Bay, with their translations by Rev. A. Stecker of the Moravian 

 Society. 



Idyutak, "lever," referring to the form of the mountain. 



Ivitak, "red-colored," land with a reddish color; red ochre; bricks. 



Kaputyat, "place for trout-spearing," or (better) "place for spearing." 



Karmarsuit, " wall." Some lands in the shape of a wall are called " Karmarsuk " 

 (little wall) or " Karmarsoak " (great wall). " Suit " is a plural suffix. [over] 



