GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NORTHEAST COAST 105 
millions of years, of burial, appears above the broad un- 
stratified band at the base of the Bishop’s Mitre. 
A brief note from the revised log of the schooner Brave 
suggests how little exploration of the Kaumajets has been 
accomplished : — 
‘As indicated by its position, composition, and topo- 
graphic character, the island of Ogua’lik really forms the 
southern extremity of the Kaumajets. Mugford Tickle 
separates it from the mainland. It was in this narrow 
channel that our anchorage was chosen. Again we had 
occasion to mourn the slowness of our northward progress, 
for it would have been of the highest interest to devote a 
fortnight at least to the exploration of this region; in order 
to be certain of reaching Nachvak, however, we allowed but 
two days in which to secure information concerning the 
nature of the massifs immediately surrounding the vessel. 
“The nine-hundred foot scarps of Ogua’lik would have 
been impressive among the tamer landscapes of southern 
Labrador, but they were dwarfed beside the superb walls 
of the opposing mountains only a mile or two distant. We 
had entered the tickle late at night, and in the brilliant 
starlight had discerned the huge piles looming up in solemn 
and formless grandeur. Their mystery became in part 
dispelled as a bright sun disclosed a scene in its way un- 
rivalled in Labrador. Due north in the centre of the view 
two gracefully rounded knobs, estimated by the aid of 
barometric readings halfway to their summits to be 2500 
feet in height, lay close to the verge of an almost vertical 
precipice from 1000 to 1200 feet high. Below this a series 
of lesser cliffs, separated by steeply sloping screes of 
rock-waste stepped downward to the uneven floor of a 
