TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 



In other places the immediate shore is a 

 flat shelf of limestone, smoothed, polished and 

 grooved by the glaciers of long ago. Many of 

 these grooves are shallow, rounded depres- 

 sions several yards wide, extending south into 

 the sea, and slightly sloping in that direction. 

 So smooth and uniform are these shelves, that 

 they would make perfect slips for whale fac- 

 tories ; all that is needed is a tackle on the land, 

 a whale in the water, and the thing is complete. 

 In some places, however, this fresh polished 

 surface is marred by numerous little hollows 

 which suggest selective solvent power of water 

 on some of the ingredients of the stone. In 

 other places the limestone is cracked and broken 

 off in square blocks suitable for house building, 

 or in smaller fragments making pebbly beaches. 



As the islands are all alike in a way, a de- 

 scription of Esquimaux Island, which we fre- 

 quently visited from the village of Esquimaux 

 Point, will do for all. This island is separated 

 by a sound three quarters of a mile wide from 

 Esquimaux Point, and is of irregular outline 

 with numerous deep bays. On June 3d we had 

 a splendid opportunity to study the limestone 

 formations of the island, for we walked around 



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