E I 'JDEXCES OF RECENT ELE VA TION 2 5 



ada where vertebrate remains, especially the whale, are associ- 

 ated with raised beaches. In speaking of the lower St. Law- 

 rence in the neighborhood of Little Meta,' he s^P;"^;"^^^^ 

 large whales occasionally occur on this terrace." After describ- 

 ing a beach on the island of Anticosti,^ he says, "The bones of 

 a whale were found on this beach." He further states that the 

 same condition is observed along the shore of the St. Lawrences 

 and at Smith's Falls,^ Ontario. The beach at the latter place 

 has an elevation of 420 feet above the level of the sea. 



Packard 5 refers to the same association on the lower Savage 

 Islands In each case invertebrate shells representing several 

 genera 'and species were found occurring with the vertebrate 

 remains, but in greater abundance, as would be expected. 



Sorcthern coast of Baffin Land, about twenty miles north of Ashe 

 /.^/.^^- Three stops were made on the mainland at different 

 places, and at each one proofs of recent elevation were seen m 

 the form of raised beaches. At the first landing, which was 

 across White Strait to the north, and opposite the middle of 

 Big Island, about twenty miles from Ashe Inlet, the beaches 

 were associated with other forms of evidence, above mentioned, 

 as being present on the island; viz., fossils and difference m 

 degree of weathering above certain heights. The rock of this 

 pan of Baf^n Land is a fine-grained, garnetiferous gneiss, and 

 thus differs from the rock of the island. The land is low near 

 the coast, but rises into a series of hills which at a distance of a 

 mile or more back from the sea reach an elevation of 700 feet, 

 continuing to rise inland. 



Raised beaches.-T\.^^^ did not attain so perfect a degree of 

 development as those on the island. They were formed in very 

 narrow valleys, crescentic in shape and concave seaward, dammmg 

 back small ponds or lakelets. In one place, where this condition 



^The Canadian Ice Age, 1894, P- 65- ' ^t!^f^' '^\ 



4 Ibid., p. 203. 



^Jbld., p. 159- TT <. 



sMemo.rs Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1867, I, Part II, p. 226. 



eThe writer was landed on Big Island and d.d not v,sU th.s pa.t «* J - ^^ ^l^^' 

 For what follows he is indebted to Professor R. S. Tarr, who has ver> k>ndh fur- 

 nished him with all the facts. 



