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We had hoped to spend some days, if not weeks, in the study of 
these interesting mountains, but the lateness of the season forbade our 
dropping anchor within reach of the noble range. Judging again 
simply from the peculiarly dark color of the bare rock-surfaces, it 
seems probable that the gabbro seen at Port Manvers makes up most 
of the Kiglapait, which will thus represent the Coolin type of gabbro 
mountains in Scotland." 
On the other hand, it was discovered that banded and much con- 
torted gneisses compose the numerous low islands lying between Ford 
Harbor and Mugford Tickle, a distance of fifty miles. At the Tickle, 
the undulating platform of the complex disappears beneath the quite 
different formations of the Kaumajets. 
Tue Kaumaset Mountain Group. 
For a distance of fifty miles to the southward we had marked the ma- 
jestic pile of the Bishop’s Mitre with the associated mountains of the main- 
land. Their summits were at the time covered witha fresh fall of snow ; 
the brilliancy of the crests recalled the etymology of the name which 
again illustrates the ‘Eskimo’s feeling for natural scenery. “ Kaumajet” 
signifies “shining” ; the range is the Himalaya of Labrador. 
As indicated by its position, composition, and topographic 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 con- 
cerning 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 mighty 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 form- 
less grandeur. Their mystery became in part dispelled as a bright 
sun disclosed a scene in its way unrivalled in Labrador. Due north 
in the centre of the view two gracefully rounded knobs, estimated, by 
the aid of barometric readings half-way to their summits, to be 
1 A. Geikie, Scenery of Scotland. Ed. 2, 1887, p. 215. 
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