304 THE GEOLOGY OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



into beaches. But we first saw them on a hill, estimated 

 roughly to be one thousand feet high, a few miles north 

 of Cape St. Michael, at Square Island, where they lend 

 a new feature to the landscape. At this level they were 

 strewn sparsely upon the tops of the surrounding hills. 

 One was about fifteen by forty feet in size. A large pro- 

 portion were well rounded, while others were angular. 

 The greater proportion were of syenite, a few small ones 

 were of greenstone. 



Northward of this locality I did not have an oppor- 

 tunity of ascending the mountains above the level of the 

 ancient coast-line. 



Professor Hind likewise found very few bowlders at a 

 distance from the bed of the Moisie, for a distance of 

 fifty miles from its mouth. But on ascending the water- 

 -shed, and penetrating farther inland, they everywhere 

 grew more numerous. A few miles beyond " Burnt 

 Portage" on this river, " huge blocks of gneiss, twenty 

 feet in diameter, lay in the channel or on the rocks 

 which here and there pierced the sandy tract through 

 which the river flowed ; while on the summits of moun- 

 tains and along the crests of hill ranges they seemed as 

 if they had been dropped like hail. It was not difficult 

 to see that many of these rock fragments were of local 

 ■origin, but others had travelled far. From an eminence 

 I could discover that they were piled to a great height 

 between hills three and four hundred feet high, and from 

 the comparatively sharp edges of many, the parent rock 

 could not have been far distant." * 



Also at Caribou Lake, an expansion of the same river, 



* The Labrador Peninsula, p. 227. Also, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Jan. 20, 

 1864, p. 122, On Supposed Glacial Drift in the Labrador Peninsula, etc. 



