THE MOUNTAIN RANGES OF LABRADOR. ^ 



for 1884, the scenery of this part of the country is 

 wonderfully wild and grand, rivalling that of the coast Of 

 Norway, and of the coast of Greenland, the mountains 

 being about as high as in those regions. According to 

 Prof. Bell : " After passing the Strait of Belle Isle, the 

 Labrador coast continues high and rugged, and although 

 there are some interruptions to the general rule, the 

 elevation of the land near the coast may be said to in- 

 crease gradually in going northward, until within seventy 

 statute miles of Cape Chudleigh, where it has attained a 

 height of about 6,000 feet above the sea. Beyond this 

 it again diminishes to this cape, where it is 1,500 feet. 

 From what I have seen quoted of Labrador, and from 

 what I have been able to learn through published ac- 

 counts from the Hudson Bay Company's officers and 

 the natives, and also judging from the indications af- 

 forded by the courses of the rivers and streams, the 

 highest land of the peninsula lies near the coast all along, 

 constituting, in fact, a regular range of mountains parallel 

 to the Atlantic seaboard. In a general way, this range 

 becomes progressively narrower from Hamilton Inlet 

 to Cape Chudleigh." * The highest mountains in Labra- 

 dor were previously said by Messrs. Kohlmeister and 

 Knoch to rise from a chain of high mountains terminat- 

 ing in the lofty peaks near Aulezavik Island and Cape 

 Chidley. One of the smallest of these mountains, 

 Mount Bache, was measured in i860 by the Eclipse 

 Expedition of the U. S. Coast Survey, and found to be 

 2,150 feet above the sea-level. This mountain is a 

 gneiss elevation, and a sketch on the geological chart by 



'Observations on the 'Geology, etc., of the Labrador Coast, etc., Rep. of 

 Geological Survey of Canada, 1884, p. 10 DD, 



