126 LABRADOR 
fea or huge tongues of ice, even more notice- 
as ably than the main ice-cap, have 
scoured and quarried away the bed- 
rock. One result has been to widen 
and flatten the valley-floors, thereby 
steepening up the side slopes that be- 
longed to the normal river-cut canyons 
of pre-Glacial days. Over the cliffs 
many fine waterfalls are tumbling from 
side-valleys mouthing many hundreds 
of feet above the sea-water of the in- 
lets. As usual, too, the rocks of the 
glacier-beds showed different powers of 
resistance to the pluck-and-scour of the 
ice and long, deep rock-basins were 
ploughed out in the bottoms that once 
possessed the uniform, smooth seaward 
slope of river-made valleys. (See Figs. 
18 and 19.) Thus, excavation by the 
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100 great local glaciers has been chiefly re- 
sponsible for the peculiar and impressive 
110 scenic quality of the fiords occurring be- 
a tween Cape Mugford and Cape Chidley. 
A short but interesting chapter re- 
mains to complete the scenic history of 
the Labrador. Ice-cap and_ valley 
glaciers melted away and left the land 
sculptured into essentially its present 
form; left hill and valley, scoured rock, 
hollowed basins, ponded waters, and 
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countlessrushing rapids and quiet reaches 
in the streams which were new-born on 
