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places, and for rather short distances, the rest being almost 

 entirely masked by the piling up of the products of weathering. 

 An intermediate stage is represented by a beach some 50 yards 

 long and as many wide, composed of very fine material, mostly 

 sand and gravel, and acting as the divide in the very shallow 

 valley in which it is built. The two large beaches grade or run 

 into rock-basin lakes at their eastern ends. 



The cemetery of Black Lead Island is built on a well-defined 

 beach composed of sand and gravel, and is at an estimated ele- 

 vation of between lOO and 125 feet above sea level. Beaches 

 were noticed at several other places, but time would not admit 

 of their study. 



A condition, unlike that been at any of the other places, was 

 noticed on all of the lands enclosing this harbor, which, in itself, 

 would have a tendency to indicate or suggest elevation. The 

 condition was that of a form of rocky headland or cape of pecu- 

 liar development, cut out of the solid rock, primarily, by wave- 

 cutting and perhaps, subsequently, by ice erosion to an unknown 

 extent. They were very numerous, extended seaward for quite 

 a long distance, were very narrow — only a few yards at widest 

 ■ — and were of a remarkably level-topped condition, rising five 

 to ten and twenty feet above sea level. At about'the same level 

 notches of wave-cut origin were more or less distinctly notice- 

 able, and while time would not admit of their study, they appar- 

 ently were in correlation with the capes. Partial evidence was 

 found which seemed to indicate recent elevation of some 50-100 

 feet above the highest beach mentioned. 



Evidence of presejit rising of the land on Big Island around 

 Ashe Inlet region and at Niantilik Harbor. — At each of these 

 places, in nearly every valley studied, was found a beach built 

 of fine material, sand and gravel, at an elevation of from five to 

 ten feet above high tide. The evidence of present upward 

 movement at Niantilik is made stronger by the peculiar type of 

 rocky headland, extending seaward. 



BelP has shown evidence of a like kind indicating a similar 



' Canad. Geol. Survey, Rept. of Prog. 1882, 1883, 1884, pp. 26, 31, 33 and 35, DD. 



