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the peninsula between Kangerd]uksoak and Saeglek Bay and were 
carried by Eskimos across the latter inlet from the Pangnertok (see 
Weiz’s map in Packard’s “ The Labrador Coast, p. 226). Thence they 
walked to Ramah Bay, were most hospitably received by the mission- 
aries and after a much needed rest, went once more overland to their 
destination. They report that until they had reached a point three or 
four miles north of Saeglek Bay (at about 64° W. Long.), they passed 
over gneisses similar to those seen at Hebron. Then bands of black 
slate alternating with quartzite were met with. Soon continuous slates 
with interbedded sandstones and quartz breccias were crossed, and these 
persisted to a point some four miles north of Ramah Bay. Thence the 
route carried them over schists equivalent in character to those found 
on both sides of Nachvak Bay. ‘The sediments are highly indurated, 
and often somewhat metamorphosed. Neither the quartzites nor the 
greatly cleaved and pyritiferous slates yielded fossils to the travellers, 
who were constantly on the lookout for them. What seems to be a con- 
tinuation of the same sedimentary terrane was seen by the writer, though 
at a distance, in the form of ragged black cliffs fifteen hundred feet or 
more in height, lying southwest of Gulch Cape. The massifs correspond- 
ing are tabular, with very low dips and are plainly stratified. Kohl- 
meister and Kmoch mention the Ramah slates in the narrative of their 
journey in 1811. 
OBSERVATIONS IN AND ABOUT Nacuvak Bay. TYopography and Scenery. 
— At dawn on August 21st, the “ Brave” was lying-to about six miles 
from Gulch Cape waiting for daylight before the not particularly safe 
passage of the Nachvak Narrows could be attempted. As we drew 
nearer the shore, a brilliant sun flooded with light a scene most impres- 
sive to us who were fresh from the softened outlines of the southern 
coast and from the yet more’ featureless landscapes of southern New 
England. In front stood the bold fifteen hundred-foot headland whose 
many ravines have given the cape its name. Just west of it rose a 
curiously regular hill of about the same height, as typical a cone as one 
could well imagine, yet apparently an erosion form derived from the 
destruction of crystalline schists. To the right of the cone, a long east 
and west ridge, estimated at twenty-five hundred feet in height, claimed 
instant attention, as it represented, better than any part of the Torngats 
yet seen, that serrate topography which Bell and others have emphasized 
in the descriptions of the region. It is a knife-edged sierra, trenched 
on either flank and from top to bottom by a score of deep transverse 
ravines. In the background, visible through two U-shaped notches, 
