300 THE GEOLOGY OP THE LABRADOR COAST. 



mens of which he has deposited in the Museum of the; 

 Portland Society of Natural History. 



These were the only glacial markings I observed. It 

 should be noted that Mr. Jukes, in his "Geology o£ 

 Newfoundland," states that he never observed any glacial) 

 striae during his explorations on that island. They 

 we're observed in abundance by Professor Hind about 

 fifty miles from the mouth of the river Moisie, where 

 occurred "gneiss terraces five in number, the highest 

 being about one thousand feet above the sea, and backed 

 by a stunted birch- and spruce-clad mountain some eight 

 hundred feet higher still. The sloping sides of these 

 abrupt steps are rounded, polished, and furrowed by 

 glacial action. Cuts half an inch deep and an inch or 

 more broad go down slope and over level continuously. 

 Rounded and water-worn bowlders are perched here and 

 there on the edge of the uppermost terrace. These 

 strange memorials of the drift begin to be more com- 

 mon" (p. 133). 



Fine examples of rounded and embossed rocks oc- 

 curred at a bay situated a few miles to the westward of 

 Little Mecatina Island. Here the numerous islets of 

 syenites assume a low dom^-like shape, whose shores 

 descend to the water's edge by a gentle slope, and are so 

 smooth and polished that one can with difficulty descend 

 them when wet without slipping. 



On the southern coast the eminences all present their 

 longer slopes to the northward, and their lee sides de- 

 scend seaward and southward in sudden falls and slopes. 

 On the contrary, on the eastern and Atlantic shores 

 the stoss or struck sides look westward, and the lee side 

 is on the eastern side of the hills, thus showing that the 



