Mr. Steinhauer's Geology of the Coast of Labrador. 491 



Labrador, in lat. 82)° 50', and said to be never free from snow ; they 

 have not been visited by the missionaries, who now seldom go far 

 to the south of Hopedale. 



With respect to their actual height little can be said with certainty, 

 but as Mount Thoresby, on an island south of Kiglapyed was ascer- 

 tained by the officers of H.M.S. Medusa and Thalia, to be 2733 

 feet, and the Kiglapyed is evidently higher, yet inferior to the Kau- 

 mayok and Nachwak heights, the latter cannot be assumed at less 

 than 3000 feet. This supposition gains additional probability, 

 from the circumstance that the Kaumayok has been seen by Capt. 

 Frazier,* at a distance of upwards of 30 leagues from land. 

 The mountains to the west of Cape Chudleigh are much lower, 

 and, according to the accounts of the missionaries, of a different 

 nature; but wherein the difference consists we are unable to de- 

 termine. 



It would, doubtless, be highly interesting to ascertain the consti- 

 tuent strata of these elevations ; but the attention of the missionaries 

 being more directed to mineralogical than geological specimens, and 

 being apt to esteem nothing worth notice, but what, by form or 

 colour attracted notice, we have little more than hints to guide our 

 suppositions. 



From the islands near Cape Chudleigh we have received speci- 

 mens cf large-grained pale granite, with garnets. The island of 

 Ammilok (about lat. 59° 20') is described as consisting almost 

 entirely of a crumbling granite, sometimes mixed with hornblende. 

 The mountains of Nachwak, about Nachwak bay, furnish con- 

 siderable quantities of lapis ollaris, generally of the grey kind, (of 

 which a vspecimen is sent) but sometimes of the semi-transparent 



* The master of (he sliip annually sent with provisions to the missionaries. 



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