Il8 A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



rock-terraces or shelves. A large brook here plunges 

 in a broad sheet of foam straight down into the sea. The 

 east side of the harbor of Anse-au-Loup is much higher 

 than the western, the surface is irregular, and the but- 

 tressed steeps recall the Palisades of the Hudson. Then 

 we pass along a beautiful green glacis, and on the 

 northwest face of the bluff are five terraces, with the 

 sandstone strata slightly inclined. Here on the lowest 

 bluff are to be seen four terraces (Fig. B). 



In the bay east of Anse-au-Loup, whose shores seemed 



^.TERRACES AT BLANC SABLON ; £, AT ANSE-AU-LO L P ; C, TERRACES SEEN 

 FROM THE MOUTH OF A BAY EAST OF ANSE-AU-LOUP. 



to be well wooded, we can again look through to the 

 original broken Laurentian rock, and the Cambrian 

 sandstone (Fig. C) runs out into a low point terminat- 

 ing in a low, shelving, green glacis. On this point is 

 the fishing-hamlet of Semedit (a corruption of Saint 

 Modeste), with but two houses. 



The wind freshened off the cliffs, and now sailing on, 



