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the recoil, as one might say, of the softer rocks in their pressure 

 against the irresistible Canadian shield, so that the line of fracture 

 or fault was deflected at its outer end southward in such a way as 



Chart of the Gulf of St Lawrence and adjoining lands 

 (The areas of the bottom down to 30 and 100 fathoms are indicated by 

 close and coarse stippling. The broken curved line through the gulf is the 

 line of greatest depth. The heavy black lines are the orogenic or mountain 

 axes at north and south.) 



