E. B. Delabarre, Ph. D. 109 



Steep up from the shores of the bay rises a series of 

 mountains, which attain very nearly the greatest height of 

 any in all of Labrador. North of them, on the coast, no 

 great distance beyond, and northwest in the interior, are the 

 very highest of all, the highest, in fact, of any mountains of 

 the Atlantic coast of North America. They form two classes 

 in their general formation, the two often mingling, sometimes 

 in dififerent portions of the same mountains. Some rise 

 steeply, with talus-covered sides except on the higher parts, 

 to long, sharp, dentate ridges. The others have more gently 

 curving sides and rounded tops, though one or more of 

 their faces may be cut away, leaving perpendicular cliffs, often 

 of great height. The rounded form predominates on the 

 immediate shore of the bay, the former lying further back 

 from its waters.* The curves and outlines of the more 

 rounded are usually of great simplicity, yet possess a massive 

 and vigorous majesty and grandeur. They often hide wild 

 gorges in their folds, where torrents dash down the thinly- 

 soiled slopes ; and their cHffs, some of them of great height, 

 are wonderfully imposing. At a distance the rounded sides 

 and summits of these mountains appear smooth and easily 

 accessible, in great contrast with the more rugged outlines 



*"A11 agree in emphasizing the wild, ragged, alpine nature of the 

 relief. From end to end of the (Torngat) range, razor-back ridges and 

 horns abound. These are separated by lower rounded hills and yet more 

 conspicuously by numerous deep fiords and glaciated valleys or glens, 

 the near relatives of the fiords. ... It would be a mistake, however, 

 to attribute a glacial origin to the rounded profiles of many of the 

 dome-shaped mountains that alternate with the horns. The former are 

 to be regarded as the result of atmospheric erosion and their slopes as 

 the graded surfaces of mountains normally subdued to relatively tame 

 form by that agency. The same stage of development awaits their more 

 acuminate neighbors." — Daly's Geology, p. 224. 



