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cleaving the mountain to its base at the shore two miles 

 from the notch. Occupying the bottom of the ravine an 

 uninterrupted snowbank still marked, in the month of 

 August, the line of symmetry of the whole mountain. From 

 either peak of the Mitre a rugged razor-back ridge descends, 

 each gradually diverging from the other across the widening 

 intervening trench. With essentially similar profiles, the 

 two spurs further match as each terminates at an elevation 

 of about a thousand feet in a bold rock-tower. Each sen- 

 tinel tower rises some 800 feet above the ridge-crest, from 

 which there is a sudden slope of the full 1800 feet into the 

 sea. The light gray colour of the Basement, in contrast 

 with the black of the cyclopean masonry above, adds to the 

 impression won from the beautiful symmetry that the whole 

 structure is the work of giants with the brains of men. No 

 more interesting mountain occurs on the whole coast." 



Our knowledge concerning the Torngat Range or the 

 Kaumajets is imperfect; still less is known of the third of 

 the high places on the Labrador the Kiglapait. Fif- 

 teen miles north of Port Manvers and some fifty miles south 

 of the southern limit of the Kaumajet group, the Kiglapait 

 lifts its rocky head and giant vertebrae out of the sea like 

 the massive skeleton of some monster reptile left stranded 

 on the shore. Practically all the information to be had 

 on the real nature of the range is embodied in two para- 

 graphs of the report of the Brave expedition: "The name 

 of this mountain-group is an Eskimo word meaning 'The 

 Great 'Sierra' and refers to the very ragged sky-line and 

 general outlines. The axis of the range runs due east and 

 west parallel to the coast-line, which here has an exceptional 

 trend. The sierra is not more than thirty miles in length, 



