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sively moss and lichen, with occasional individual plants of 

 grass and very rarely a small flowering- plant. Of the latter 

 I found not more than half a dozen varieties. Here and 

 there were patches of freshly fallen snow, but none of great 

 extent. 



We attained the summit at 4.30. The barometer re- 

 corded the height as 4,400 feet.* Mt. Eliot, east of us, must 

 probably exceed 5,000 feet in height. The sky was wholly 

 overcast with low-lying clouds. At first we were completely 

 enveloped in fog, but this blew ofif occasionally, only to be 

 replaced by fresh banks of it rolling up from the south. 

 There were fortunately sufficient breaks to enable us to get 

 some photographs, and to give us glimpses of the magnificent 

 scenery about us. 



The material of the mountain is the same as that of 

 which most of Labrador is formed : mainly hornblende gneiss, 

 cut here and there by dykes of darker trap. The summit is of 

 almost knife-like sharpness and very jagged. It is nearly 

 level for about a hundred yards, descends then slightly to 

 the north for a short distance, and then turns sharply east- 

 ward, and goes down by a series of steps to the valley. 

 Southward it descends gradually by the slopes we had as- 

 cended. The whole of its mass is a narrow ridge, falling 

 with great abruptness in dizzy precipices on the east and 

 west. Mt. Eliot is apparently almost exactly similar in its 

 nature, with a long slope to the south and sharp serrate 

 ridges descending northward from its summit and curving 

 somewhat westward, extending far beyond the limits of Mt. 

 Faunce. 



* The barometric pressure at sea-level remained constant throughout 

 the day until after our measurements were taken; the latter, therefore, 

 required no correction. 



