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LABRADOR 



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HEAD OF huge tongues of ice, even more notice- 



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ably than the main ice-cap, have 

 scoured and quarried away the bed- 

 rock. One result has been to widen 

 and flatten the valley-floors, thereby 

 steepening up the side slopes that be- 

 longed to the normal river-cut canyons 

 of pre-Glacial days. Over the cliffs 

 many fine waterfalls are tumbling from 

 side-valleys mouthing many hundreds 

 of feet above the sea-water of the in- 

 lets. As usual, too, the rocks of the 

 glacier-beds showed different powers of 

 resistance to the pluck-and-scour of the 

 ice and long, deep rock-basins were 

 ploughed out in the bottoms that once 

 possessed the uniform, smooth seaward 

 slope of river-made valleys. (See Figs. 

 18 and 19.) Thus, excavation by the 

 great local glaciers has been chiefly re- 

 sponsible for the peculiar and impressive 

 scenic quality of the fiords occurring be- 

 tween Cape Mugford and Cape Chidley. 

 A short but interesting chapter re- 

 mains to complete the scenic history of 

 the Labrador. Ice-cap and valley 

 glaciers melted away and left the land 

 sculptured into essentially its present 

 form ; left hill and valley, scoured rock, 

 hollowed basins, ponded waters, and 

 countless rushing rapids and quiet reaches 

 in the streams which were new-born on 



