TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 
In other places the immediate shore is a 
flat shelf of limestone, smoothed, polished and 
grooved by the glaciers of long ago. Many of 
these grooves are shallow, rounded depres- 
sions several yards wide, extending south into 
the sea, and slightly sloping in that direction. 
So smooth and uniform are these shelves, that 
they would make perfect slips for whale fac- 
tories; all that is needed is a tackle on the land, 
a whale in the water, and the thing is complete. 
In some places, however, this fresh polished 
surface is marred by numerous little hollows 
which suggest selective solvent power of water 
on some of the ingredients of the stone. In 
other places the limestone is cracked and broken 
off in square blocks suitable for house building, 
or in smaller fragments making pebbly beaches. 
As the islands are all alike in a way, a de- 
scription of Esquimaux Island, which we fre- 
quently visited from the village of Esquimaux 
Point, will do for all. This island is separated 
by a sound three quarters of a mile wide from 
Esquimaux Point, and is of irregular outiine 
with numerous deep bays. On June 3d we had 
a splendid opportunity to study the limestone 
formations of the island, for we walked around 
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