CHAPTEll V. 



SOME LOCAL DETAILS. 



It will ])G impossible, iu llie space at my disjxjsu], to 

 embrace all the local details involved in my subject, and 

 to give these woukl be te(li(jus and unremunerative. For 

 tlie greater part of tliem I mu.st refer to reports and 

 papers already in print, and some of which will l)e 

 mentioned at the end of the ciiapter. I propose to notice 

 only certain leading localities to which my own attention 

 has been specially directed or which have important 

 bearings on our general conclusions. 



/. — (u'livral Dirisions of Camilla. 



That northern lialf of Xorth America included in the 

 Dominion of Canada and Xewfoundland may, for the 

 purposes now in view, be divided geogra})hically inlo six 

 regions, characterized by distinctive physical features, and 

 by distinct relations to the phenomena of the glacial age. 



1. Newfoundland, not yet included in the Dominion of 

 Canada, and separated from Labrador merely b}- the 

 straits of ]>elle-isle, may be considered as an outlying 

 part of the Laurentide range, and as an isolated centre of 



