GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NORTHEAST COAST 128 
belt of northeastern Labrador. The resulting moraines 
and other loose deposits cannot be seen in anything like 
their full volume, for they are almost entirely buried 
beneath the waters of the North Atlantic. Only here and 
there within the coastal belt itself did some lingering, 
local ice-tongue build a small moraine to represent the 
immense accumulations that must have resulted from 
the strong glaciation of the coast. One such moraine has 
been described as a unique discovery during the voyage 
of the Brave. It was noted on the mainland opposite 
Copper Island near Seal Island Harbour. 
For the rest of the coast, so far as known, the glacial 
deposits consist either of very small patches of clay carrying 
boulders or of single boulders scattered over the bed-rock 
surface. All told, they form but a comparatively insig- 
nificant mass of loose material left irregularly distributed 
over the glacier-floor when the ice finally melted away. 
As the ice-sheet shrunk, the boulders gradually and quietly 
sank to their present resting-places. Many of the larger 
ones were delicately poised on their corners and now form 
“rocking-stones’’ which may be easily set swinging from 
side to side with the hand. 7 
But a picture of the Labrador in glacial times would be 
far from complete unless the imagination reconstruct the 
physical geography of the lofty northern mountain-ranges 
during that period. As far back as 1860 an American geol- 
ogist named Lieber noted on the mainland south of Cape 
Chidley “wild volcanic-looking mountains, . . . whose 
craggy peaks have evidently never been ground down by 
land-ice into domes and rounded tops.” Dr. Robert 
Bell, after a brief visit to the Torngats, said of them: 
