128 LABRADOR 
if the truth be recognized that all about the North Atlantic 
the same upward movement of the land has taken place. 
The shores of Maine, Quebec, Scotland, Scandinavia, and 
Finland are regions favoured by those who love the form 
and colour contrasts of the many-tinted sea with the massive, 
bold, or savage rocks still bearing marks of a late submerg- 
ence. Ona larger scale and, in general, with much greater 
vividness than elsewhere in North America at least, the 
explanation of this peculiar scenery can be told and illus- 
trated on the Labrador, where, therefore, the beauty of 
such a shore, becoming a type of all, can be at once best 
appreciated and understood. 
A visit to the newest dry land of Labrador has yet greater 
value in giving one faith in the reality of the giant geo- 
logical forces. Throughout a human lifetime the earth 
seems stable; the human records of a thousand years 
seem to establish the same belief. It needs some such 
object-lesson as the emerged coastal zone of Labrador to 
show us finally that those “first impressions” are wrong, — 
that the Greek philosophers were right, though they knew 
not the name of geology, in claiming for the world an “ eter- 
nal flux of things.’’ The lesson speaks tellingly of the real 
instability of the sea-level, of massive, regional uplifts of 
the land, and of the growth of continents. On other 
grounds, for example, it is believed that the long coastal 
plain underlying the Atlantic States from New Jersey 
to Florida was once part of the bed of the ocean, but the 
belief founded on local discoveries at last reaches its full 
strength and overlaps actual knowledge when it can be 
shown beyond doubt or cavil that the sea-bottom elsewhere 
has been warped up to form new land. With unmistakable 
