GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NORTHEAST COAST 105 



millions of years, of burial, appears above the broad un- 

 stratified band at the base of the Bishop's Mitre. 



A brief note from the revised log of the schooner Brave 

 suggests how little exploration of the Kaumajets has been 

 accomplished : 



"As indicated by its position, composition, and topo- 

 graphic character, the island of Ogua'lik really forms the 

 southern extremity of the Kaumajets. Mugford Tickle 

 separates it from the mainland. It was in this narrow 

 channel that our anchorage was chosen. Again we had 

 occasion to mourn the slowness of our northward progress, 

 for it would have been of the highest interest to devote a 

 fortnight at least to the exploration of this region ; in order 

 to be certain of reaching Nachvak, however, we allowed but 

 two days in which to secure information concerning the 

 nature of the massifs immediately surrounding the vessel. 



"The nine-hundred foot scarps of Ogua'lik would have 

 been impressive among the tamer landscapes of southern 

 Labrador, but they were dwarfed beside the superb walls 

 of the opposing mountains only a mile or two distant. We 

 had entered the tickle late at night, and in the brilliant 

 starlight had discerned the huge piles looming up in solemn 

 and formless grandeur. Their mystery became in part 

 dispelled as a bright sun disclosed a scene in its way un- 

 rivalled in Labrador. Due north in the centre of the view 

 two gracefully rounded knobs, estimated by the aid of 

 barometric readings halfway to their summits to be 2500 

 feet in height, lay close to the verge of an almost vertical 

 precipice from 1000 to 1200 feet high. Below this a series 

 of lesser cliffs, separated by steeply sloping screes of 

 rock-waste stepped downward to the uneven floor of a 



