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rather evenly though sparingly deposited, alone offered a glimpse of 

 the appearance of the surface beneath the snow. These blocks 

 were for the most part very angular, often nearly square ; occasion- 

 ally a rounded one appeared, and I saw one huge, almost round 

 stone, nearly two feet through each way, balanced nicely between two 

 upright rocks, while on the opposite side an almost perfect and 

 solid block cube of stone was nicely balanced upon the fine point 

 of a small upright chip of rock, from which but a slight push would 

 have dislodged it, — as also the rounded stone opposite — showing 

 that the force or agency that left it there could hardly have been a 

 convulsive, but rather a slow-moving and methodical one. At the 

 northeast corner of the bay we took to the ice again, and finding it 

 firm and hard we skirted along the edge of the outer side, and 

 crossing Grand Point — where the formation begins to differ from 

 what I have just described, and to take on the aspect of the whole 

 plateau this side of Bradore and extending to Forteau bay, a distance 

 of some eleven miles across, being a sandstone deposited in regular 

 layers of which I shall speak soon — we landed at Blanc Sablon, 

 the eastern termination or boundary line of the Province of Quebec. 



Beyond, the whole broad plateau or table-land of Labrador 

 proper extends. It exists as a dependent of the provincial gov- 

 ernment of British Newfoundland, to which Labrador pays duty 

 and tribute in the shape of revenue on all goods received within 

 its boundaries. 



I will now speak of a little cove on the southern end of this 

 eastern side of Bradore bay. I am almost certain that it is that 

 portion marked in the charts where the water encroaches upon the 

 land in a semicircular-like baylet almost directly opposite Paroquet 

 Island. I discovered here a beach of pure sand, extending backward 

 into a series of regular hillocks of sand or sand dunes, as they are 

 called, which rise above the level of the surrounding country back of 

 them. That they appear in this place, marking as they seem to do 

 the separation between the Bradore granite and Blanc Sablon sand- 

 stone, and running away back in gentle slope to what seems to have 

 been once a bay of the sea with its nearly level extension between a 



