E. B. Delabarre, Ph. D. 107 



water and the tributary valleys. In both sections they are 

 piled up in picturesque and confusing abundance. Their 

 summits and slopes are worn and broken. About Saglek 

 and Nachvak they are more wild and rugged. In. the slate 

 region about Ramah they have a softer tone and gentler 

 slopes. Geologically also we traversed sections of different 

 nature and origin: at the extremes of our route the rock 

 formations are of gneiss cut by dykes of trap — the character- 

 istic rock-materials of the country ; in the middle section, be- 

 ginning about seven miles north of Saglek and reaching 

 beyond Ramah for a distance of at least four or five miles, — 

 a total distance of not far from 30 miles, — the rocks are sedi- 

 mentary, being for the most part of slate, with ocasional 

 sandstone and breccias. Since no fossils have yet been dis- 

 covered in these deposits, their age is still undetermined.* 



IV. 



NACHVAK BAY AND THE ASCENT OF MOUNT FAUNCE. 



Nachvak Bayf is a deep and wild fiord not far from Cape 

 Chidley, the northern extreme of Labrador, at the entrance 

 to Hudson Strait. Probably there is no wilder and grander 

 scenery anywhere along the coasts of the two Americas than 

 that afforded by the lofty mountains and dark, narrow bays 

 in this vicinity. I should imagine that the famous fiords 

 of Norway must present a very similar appearance. This 



* A. P. Low (Annual Report, Geol. Surv. Can., Vol. VIII, 1896, 

 p. 249 L), on the authority of Dr. Bell, calls them Huronian schists. 



t Compare Daly's sketch-map of Nachvak Bay, reproduced here- 

 with. 



