OLD MURRAY BAY 



its burdens in these kames and drumlins on 

 the tide-scoured flats. 



The raised beaches of this and the Baie 

 St. Paul valley show the stages of the land's 

 rise — perhaps when relieved of ice. Those 

 at 60, 300, and 600 feet above tide-water 

 (speaking roughly) are so well-marked and 

 continuous — plain to see as railway embank- 

 ments — that it might be hard to match them 

 elsewhere. Another at 900 feet is less easy 

 to follow, but above it, and far inland, signs 

 abound of a much higher sea-level in recent 

 times. And the scientific mind may find 

 significance in this: fifty miles back in the 

 mountains, 2000 feet above the sea, a little 

 isolated lake snuggles in a bed delved for it 

 by the ice. A strictly lacustrine fish of very 

 set habits dwells there, much over a thou- 

 sand miles from its proper home. The re- 

 tiring sea must have left this rare arctic 

 charr behind after the departure of the ice 

 — left it to testify as to the time and order of 

 events. 



A reading of the Sagas which assigns 

 winter quarters to the Norsemen within a 

 modern cannon-shot of Murray Bay must 

 interest anyone who has had the good sense 

 to cultivate a reasonable taste for argument. 

 Professor Steensby, writing in 1918, re- 

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