GLACIATION OF HUDSON'S STRAIT. 30I 



denuding and abrading agent moved downwards from 

 the top of tiie water-siied — that is, always nearly parallel 

 to the coast. 



The adjoining illustration brings out clearly some of 

 the characteristic features of the scenery of the coast of 

 Labrador. In the foreground the rocky shore of the 

 Horsechops, as the deep fiord is called, which is situated 

 far up on the eastern coast of Labracior, has been ground 

 down, smoothed, and polished by the great mass of land- 

 ice which formerly filled Hamilton Bay and moved slowly 

 down from the table-land in the interior, and whose ice- 

 front must have presented to the sea a wall — perhaps 

 five hundred to one thousand feet high. 



Across the fiord on the shores of the bay, which rise 

 abruptly in great rocky terraces — also a characteristic 

 feature of Labrador and arctic landscapes, — may be seen 

 scattered snow-banks, which linger on these shores as 

 late as August, while those in the more shaded, protected 

 places may live on until the early snows in September 

 give them a renewal of life, so that their existence may 

 become perennial. 



About Cape Chidleythe hills and rocks are shown by 

 Mr. Lieber's drawings to have been rounded and moulded 

 by ice to a height corresponding to that of Mount Bache, 

 as noticed above. 



Dr. R. Bell shows that the basin of Hudson's Bay 

 may have formed a glacial reservoir receiving streams of 

 ice from the east, north and northwest, and south and 

 southwest. The direction of the glaciation on both sides 

 of Hudson's Strait was eastward. " That an extensive 

 glacier passed down the strait may be inferred from the 

 smoothed and striated character of the rocks of the lower 



