GLACIERS NORTH OF LABRADOR. 29;^ 



on the coast annually discharges icebergs from its streams'.- 

 He describes it as being two miles long, starting from a 

 sea of ice which extended many miles N.W. and S.E., 

 reaching across the peninsula of Meta Incognita, nearly 

 to the strait which divides Frobisher's Bay from Hud- 

 son's Strait. Mr. Hall states that " from the informa- 

 tion I had previously gained, and the data furnished me 

 by my Innuit companion, I estimated the Grinnell 

 Glacier to be fully one hundred miles long. At various- 

 points on the north side of Frobisher's Bay between Bear 

 Sound and the Countess of Warwick's Sound, I made 

 observations by sextant by which I determined that over 

 fifty miles of the glacier was in view from, and southeast 

 of, the President's Seat. A few miles above that point 

 the glacier recedes from the coast and is lost to view by 

 the Everett chain of mountains ; and as Sharkey [ai> 

 Esquimau] said, the ou-u-e-too (ice that never melts), 

 extends on wes-se-too-ad-loo (far, very far off). He added 

 that there were places along the coast below what I 

 called the President's Seat, where this great glacier dis- 

 charges itself into the sea, some of it in large icebergs. 



" From the sea of ice down to the point where the 

 abutting glacier was quite uniform in its rounding up, it 

 presented the appearance, though in a frozen state, of a. 

 mighty rushing torrent The height of the discharging 

 face of the glacier was one hundred feet above the sea." 



Given, as stated below, the rise of the Labrador penin- 

 sula only five hundred feet above its present level, and 

 we mu.st have had during the glacial period most exten- 

 sive glaciers fed by broad seas of ice resting on the table- 

 lands, reaching above the line of perpetual snow ; as only 

 one hundred and twenty miles northward of Cape Chidley 



