76 Lieut, Baddeley on the Geology 
Mne to aconsiderable distance, as if intended to be the recep 
tacle of future veins ; the floor, as I am informed, is com- 
posed of a different species of stone from the side, and ge- 
nerally of a lighter colour ; but I could not, from the descripe 
tion, ascertain whether it was calcareous or not. These 
clefts when covered with snow in the winter, sometimes 
prove dangerous pitfalls to the unwary wanderer who does not 
know how to avoid them by the line of bushes (vaccinium, 
iedum &c.) which fringe their margin. Indeed the narrow 
passages which divide the coast into numberless islands, ale 
most seem to be similar chasms occupied by the sea, few, if 
any, of those islands being alluvial, but high barren rocks, 
appearing from the sea like continuous land. 
‘¢ The highest mountains seem to extend along the eastern 
coast ; the names and situations of the principal, known to 
the Missionaries, are 
The Nachwak chain, about lat. 59° 
The insulated mountain, Tupperlik, (the tent) lat. 58: 15°. 
The Kaumayok chain terminating in the high island of 
Cape Mugford or Grimmington, lat. 58°. 
The high land of Kiglapyed in lat, 57°. 
The Mealy mountains laid down on Lane’s survey of the 
coast of Labrador in lat. 53: 50‘, and said to be never free 
from snow ; they have not been visited by the Missionaries 
who now seldom go far to the south of Hopedale. 
‘¢ With respect to their actual height, little can be said with 
certainty, but as Mount Thoresby, on an island south of 
Kiglapyed was ascertained by the officers of H. M.S. Medu- 
sa and Thalia, to be 2733 feet, and the Kiglapyed is evidently 
higher, yet inferior to the Kaumayok and Nachwak heighfsy 
the latter cannot be assumed at less than 3000 feet. This sup 
position gains additional probability, from the circumstance 
that the Kaumayok has been seen by Capt. Frazier ata dis« 
tance of upwards of 30 leagues from land. The mountains 
to the west of Cape Chadieigh are much lower, and accords 
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