No. 5.] 



HIND NORTH-EASTERN LABRADOR. 



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5. Table showing the total Precipitation and total Snowfall 

 at certain selected Stations in the Dominion of Canada 

 an d Ne wfoundla )t d. 



* At Harbor Grace instead of the depth of snow its equivalent in water is given 

 in 1873 and 1874. (Toronto Meteorological Report.) 



From these tables it will be observed that ten and twelve feet 

 of snow falling throughout the winter, year after year, is the 

 rule at sea-board stations in the Maritime Provinces, and also at 

 certain elevated stations in the interior of Ontario. If the 

 climate and the surface of the country were such as to permit 

 this large quantity of snow to drift in such a manner that con- 

 siderable portions might remain in great accumulations through- 

 out the year on the slopes of hills and mountains, as now occurs 

 on the Labrador, some conception may be formed of the vast 

 amount of glacial work which would be accomplished by the 

 slow downward movements of the drifts. 



But during the recognized submergence of the continent to 

 the extent of several hundred feet, throwing the Labrador cur- 

 rent in the direction of the valley of the St. Lawrence — alw r ays 

 pressing westerly by the rotation of the earth — the necessary 

 conditions of climate would be induced over a vast area. Wherever 

 we find arctic and some sub-arctic shells in the drift, there too, 

 on the neighbouring coasts, would snow drifts have accumulated 



