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coastal belt of northeastern Labrador, and it is largely owing 

 to the relative barrenness of this region that we were able to 

 win geological results worthy of record even under such un- 

 promising circumstances as those described in the log of the 

 "Brave." To be sure, the numerous delays that were found 

 necessary during the cruise formed a very considerable ad- 

 vantage to the geologist of the party, unwelcome as they gen- 

 erally were to his friends on board. At every anchorage 

 something could be done toward sampling the problems 

 which this coast has to offer. In every case, with no forest 

 to obscure the view, attention could be quickly called to 

 novelties, whether dike, lava flow, intrusive boss, peculiar 

 schist, noteworthy structure, elevated beach or sea-cave. 

 For this reason, the questions concerning the history and 

 composition of the coastal belt grew in number and signifi- 

 cance as we made our hasty reconnaisance, although most 

 of them would be, of course, more or less distinctly in mind 

 before one set out on the trip. 



Composed as it is for the most part of the crystalline 

 complex, presumably Archaean, which shows great diversity 

 of structural trends where it has been studied by Low in 

 the interior of Labrador, and by many others in its southern 

 and southwestern extensions in Canada, it was not to be ex- 

 pected that the northeastern coast-line would show the same 

 average parallelism to the strike-direction of the schists as 

 appears in the relation of the coast-line from the Carolinas 

 to the Straits of Belle Isle. I was, therefore, not a Httle 

 interested to find that, at some twenty-five different points 

 from the Straits to Nachvak Bay, there is a decided coi- 

 respondence in the attitude of the bedded rocks. Their 

 edges are directed approximately northeast-southwest, giv- 



