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sheet did not reach above the level of 2,100 feet above the 

 sea, though smaller local glaciers existed in all the side val- 

 leys. Below that height he found all the marks of former 

 glacial activity: ice-worn boulders, roches montonnees, striae, 

 terminal and lateral moraines : while above it these marks are 

 absent. He found also over twenty hanging valleys, some 

 of them magnificent examples of this feature of the ice work. 

 The movement of the ice-sheet followed the trend of the bay 

 and of the adjacent valleys. He discovered here also, as in 

 previous places, raised beaches and similar results of the post- 

 glacial submergence of the country underneath the sea. The 

 highest beach line is at about 250 feet above the bay.* 



The bay itself is a typical fiord, in that it is deeper within 

 than at its entrance. Dr. Daly made over twenty soundings 

 in it, going over 45 miles in a small boat for the purpose, and 

 testing all its principal points. The greatest depth he found 

 is no fathoms, and it is thus the deepest measured bay in 

 Labrador. 



Unfortunately, the days we passed at Nachvak were 

 almost all of them heavily overcast, w4th thick clouds low 

 down and concealing the tops of the higher summits, so that 

 it was profitless to attempt to scale them. We climbed and 

 measured several peaks, however, and the following pages 

 give an accountf of our chief ascent. 



On a narrow alluvial fiat on the northern shore, just 

 where the two arms of the bay diverge, are the house and 

 stores of the Hudson's Bay Company, which carries on a 

 flourishing trade in furs and fish with the native Eskimos, 

 George Ford, the agent, has lived for over twenty years with 



* Low {loc. cit.) places the upper limit at i8o feet. 

 t Reprinted in part from the Brunonian, May, 1901. 



