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uplift of the lands to the west of the region herein described, 

 and with Tyrrell' has proven the raised or elevated condition 

 along the west and southwest shore of Hudson Ba}-. Again, 

 Bell" has produced sufficient evidence, although doubted by 

 Tyrrell,^ that the Hudson Bay region has been elevated in historic 

 times ; the elevation being believed to be in progress at present. 



No landing was made on the lands along the south side of 

 the straits, but during the summer of 1884 Dr. Robt. Bell of the 

 Canadian Geological Survey was sent out as the geologist by 

 the Canadian government, through the straits and into Hudson 

 Bay, and he has described raised beaches on some of the islands 

 to the west and southwest of Baffin Land. For convenience I 

 quote from Dr. Bell's report : 



Speaking of Cape Prince of Wales,* he says : " Beaches of 

 shingle, as fresh looking as those on the present seashore, except 

 that the stones are covered with lichens, may be seen at all 



levels, up to the tops of the highest hills in this vicinity 



The materials of the raised beaches above referred to con- 

 sist principally of gneiss with milk quartz from the veins of 

 the neighborhood, together with a few fragments of yellowish 

 gray dolomite, with obscure fossils, a hard and nearly black 

 variety of siliceous clay slate, with an occasional bowlder of 

 dark, hard crystalline diorite." 



Concerning Digges Island.s he says : " Between this and the 

 western extremity of the island the hills have a rounded out- 

 line, and raised beaches, composed mostly of coarse shingle, form 

 a prominent feature on their slopes, all the way from high tide 

 mark to their summits, the highest of which is between 300 and 

 400 feet." 



Mansfield Island,'^ he says : " For many miles, the whole of 

 the eastern slope of the island presents a succession of steps or 



' Geological Magazine, Decade 4, Vol. I, 1894, p. 398. 

 = Am. Jour. Sci., Vol. I, Fourth Series, 1896, pp. 219-228. 



^Ibid,Yo\. II, Fourth Series, 1896, pp. 200-205. For other relerences to this 

 region see Bibliography. 



■tCanad. Geol. Sur. Kept. Prog. 1882, 1883, 1884, p. 26. DD. 

 5 Ibid, p. 31, DD. * //"""', P- 33. t)l>- 



