THE LABRADOR PLATEAU. 5 



loan of a MS. map, by the late Rev. Samuel Weiz, of 

 the coast from Byron Bay in latitude 54° 40' around to 

 the mouth of George River in Ungava Bay, and kindly 

 allowed to copy it. 



With the aid of the new maps of Messrs. Reichel and 

 Weiz we have been able to have compiled the new gen- 

 eral map> of the Labrador coast herewith presented ; the 

 southern portion of the coast being reproduced from the 

 British Admiralty and U. S. Coast Survey charts, as 

 well as those of the Hydrographic Office, U. S. Navy 

 Department, as follows : 



No. 9. — River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfound- 

 land, Nova Scotia, and the banks adjacent ; Sheet 

 I. English and French Surveys. Published March, 

 1868. 

 No. 731. — Anchorages N. E. coast of Labrador, from 



Br. Surveys. Published Sept., 1876. 

 No. 809. — Coast of Labrador, Cape St. Charles to 

 Sandwich Bay. Br. Surveys to 1882. 

 There are in Lt. Gordon's Report of the Hudson 

 Bay Expedition of 1885, charts of the Ottawa Islands 

 in Hudson Bay, and of one of the islands at Cape 

 Chidley. 



In its general features the peninsula of Labrador is an 

 oblong mass of Laurentian rocks situated between the 

 50th and 62d parallels of north latitude. On the east- 

 ern or Atlantic coast it rises abruptly from the ocean as 

 an elevated plateau, forming the termination of the 

 Laurentian chain, which here spreads out into a vast 

 waste of hills and low mountains.* 



* The mountains in the Quebec Province which appear in the accompanying 

 map are hypothetical, and were wrongly inserted by the artist. 



