DALY: GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHEAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 253 
Bauld, Newfoundland. Wave-built terraces were found at six, twenty- 
two, thirty-five, and seventy feet above high-water cn the hills over- 
looking the harbor itself. Others measured six, twenty-two, thirty-five 
and one hundred and twenty feet in Mauve (Noddy) Bay. A third 
set on Kirpon Island measured six, twenty-two, thirty-five, seventy, 
and one hundred and twenty feet, and were particularly well exposed 
in Grand Galets Bay. The one hundred and twenty-foot beach-terraces 
match well with the very strong rock-benches on the headlands com- 
posed of the relatively soft slates about the entrance to Mauve Bay. 
At Grand Galets, where the indentation is deep both vertically and 
horizontally, terraces at all the levels may be seen. We hoped to find 
similar correspondences among the beaches across the Straits, but 
failed to do so. In Labrador nothing comparable to the beautiful 
system underlying the occurrence of the warped ancient shore-lines 
of the Great Takes could be determined. It is impossible to deny 
that the uplift has been on the Labrador coast, as so often illustrated 
elsewhere, spasmodic, but it does not follow that this intermittent 
character will be reflected in the raised beaches of the present day. 
In most cases an ancient beach has been composed and located where 
it is because of special local conditions of formation and not because 
there occurred a halt in the uplifting process. Deposition takes place 
wherever the required protection against under-tow and shore-ice in 
the presence of appropriate off-shore depth, is afforded. (Plate 10.) 
If the hardness of the rocks, the off-shore depth, or the fetch and direc- 
tion of the more effective waves were to change at a given point, the 
balance of conditions leading to beach-formation would be destroyed. 
Thus a beach growing under the former circumstances, might grow 
faster under the new; or, on the other hand, be demolished, its débris 
forming a new beach elsewhere or helping to raise the sea-floor whither 
it was dragged. Probably no single factor in producing such changes 
on the Labrador coast has been so important as vertical movements of 
the land. 
Not only, thus, will those beaches that were really formed during 
halts in the elevatory process, be difficult to distinguish from those 
developed in protected bays as uplift takes place ; the record of halts 
will be further masked by the appearance of beach-like deposits laid 
down on steep-to shores in several fathoms of water. An interesting 
example has been described by Packard as “a truly noble beach.” 
It occurs on the south side of Sloop Harbor. It is about two hundred 
yards long and roughly graded from the one hundred and fifty-five-foot 
