CHAPTER y. 



SOME LOCAL DETAILS. 



It will be impossible, in the space at iny disposal, to 

 embrace all the local details involved in my subject, and 

 to give these would be tedious and unremunerative. For 

 the greater part of them I must refer to reports and 

 papers already in print, and some of which will be 

 mentioned at the end of the chapter. I propose to notice 

 only certain leading localities to which my own attention 

 has been specially directed or which have important 

 bearings on our general conclusions. 



/. — General Divisions of Canada. 



That northern half of North America included in the 

 Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland may, for the 

 purposes now in view, be divided geographically into six 

 regions, characterized by distinctive physical features, and 

 by distinct relations to the phenomena of the glacial age. 



1. Newfoundland, not yet included in the Dominion of 

 Canada, and separated from Labrador merely by the 

 straits of Belle-isle, may be considered as an outlying 

 part of the Laurentide range, and as an isolated centre of 



