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ALFRED IV. G. WILSON 



400 feet, and the highest general level of the interior is under 2,500 feet. A 

 belt of land somewhat higher than the general interior follows the St. 

 Lawrence coast, a short distance inland. The northern half of the Atlantic 

 coast rises in a chain of mountains considerably higher than any other portion 

 of the peninsula. Along the northern and western coasts there is no evidence 

 yet obtained to show the existence of a coastal ridge, but rather a probability 

 that the general elevation increases towards the interior. (24 p., 23.) 



Fig. 4. — Interior of Labrador, country north ol Lake Michikaman. 



{Photograph by A. P. Low, i8g4.) 



The divide between Hudson Bay drainage and that flowing 

 into the St. Lawrence lies almost midway between the two water 

 bodies. Throughout the greater part of its course the divide is 

 frequently not well defined ; at times it is well marked. Low 

 describes it in the vicinity of Lake Mistassinni as a ridge of hills 



Fig. 5. — View of the country on the Hamilton River, about fifty miles above 

 Grand Falls, showing the character of the interior plateau. 



{Photograph by A. P. Low, i8g4.) 



forming an escarpment about 300 feet high. Elsewhere he 

 mentions that this divide is a prominent topographic feature for 

 over fifty miles. 



The St. Lawrence portion of the Labrador division of the 

 uplifted peneplain does not slope uniformly from the interior 

 divide toward the gulf. On the contrary, there seems to be, as 



