GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NORTHEAST COAST 109 
cleaving the mountain to its base at the shore two miles 
from the notch. Occupying the bottom of the ravine an 
uninterrupted snowbank still marked, in the month of 
August, the line of symmetry of the whole mountain. From 
either peak of the Mitre a rugged razor-back ridge descends, 
each gradually diverging from the other across the widening 
intervening trench. With essentially similar profiles, the 
two spurs further match as each terminates at an elevation 
of about a thousand feet in a bold rock-tower. Each sen- 
tinel tower rises some 800 feet above the ridge-crest, from 
which there is a sudden slope of the full 1800 feet into the 
sea. The light gray colour of the Basement, in contrast 
with the black of the cyclopean masonry above, adds to the 
impression won from the beautiful symmetry that the whole 
structure is the work of giants with the brains of men. No 
more interesting mountain occurs on the whole coast.” 
Our knowledge concerning the Torngat Range or the 
Kaumajets is imperfect; still less is known of the third of 
the high places on the Labrador—the Kiglapait. Fif- 
teen miles north of Port Manvers and some fifty miles south 
of the southern limit of the Kaumajet group, the Kiglapait 
lifts its rocky head and giant vertebre out of the sea like 
the massive skeleton of some monster reptile left stranded 
on the shore. Practically all the information to be had 
on the real nature of the range is embodied in two para- 
graphs of the report of the Brave expedition: “The name 
of this mountain-group is an Eskimo word meaning ‘The 
Great Sierra’ and refers to the very ragged sky-line and 
general outlines. The axis of the range runs due east and 
west parallel to the coast-line, which here has an exceptional 
trend. The sierra is not more than thirty miles in length, 
