no Report of the Broivn-Harvard Expedition. 



of the sharper peaks. But on closer view their rocky frame- 

 work is seen to project everywhere, bare and greatly weath- 

 ered, while their higher portions are concealed under a roug-h 

 covering of the angular fragments into which their surfaces 

 have been rent by the powerful forces that are at work in their 

 slow transformation. 



At the entrance to the bay are two bold headlands, 

 rising outward to the higher summits of Mt. Razorback on 

 the north and Gulch Cape on the south. Thence inland, 

 high, often clifT-broken mountains closely line either shore.* 

 The highest range occurs probably somewhat westward of 

 the furthest waters of the bay. It is penetrated by several 

 rivers, flowing eastward and draining into Ramah, Nachvak, 

 and other bays. Those reaching Nachvak Bay turn after 

 piercing the mountain range, and thus flow into the bay from 

 north and south as well as west. These rivers have their 

 rise in a comparative lowland, covered by an extensive forest, 

 some fifteen to twenty miles from Nachvak waters. Beyond 

 this low watershed is a gentle slope westward toward Ungava 

 Bay, cut by a river large enough to be navigable by small 

 boats. 



The alluvial plains on the shore at the ends of the val- 

 leys, which are never of any great extent, and the valley 

 sides and bottoms wherever they are not filled in with coarse 

 detritus, are thickly clothed with vegetation. Grass, moss, 

 curlew, berry-bearing Ericacece, are mingled together in a 

 continuous complex-patterned carpet, rich in color and in 

 intricacy of design. Mingled with the greens and autumnal 



*The statements that follow in this paragraph are on the authority 

 of George Ford. 



