RAISED BEACHES. 305 



he States, "the long line of enormous erratics skirting 

 the river looked like druid's monumental stones ; for in 

 many instances they were disposed in such a manner as 

 would almost lead one to suppose they had been placed 

 there by artificial means" (p. 229). 



Of this same expedition Mr. Cayley has published an 

 account in the " Quebec Transactions," where we have 

 the statement of this observer that bowlders are very 

 thickly strewn over the surface and on the summits of 

 mountains 2,214 feet high, and situated one hundred and 

 ten miles from the coast, being near the head-waters of 

 the Moisie. " Immense numbers of bowlders had for the 

 last few miles strewn the sides of the mountains, in some 

 cases almost seeming to make up the very mountains 

 themselves ; there being this difference, that whereas the 

 rock itself in situ is granitic, the bowlders in every case 

 are of gneiss." * 



Nowhere did I see on the coast of Labrador any de- 

 posits of the original glacial clay, or "unmodified drift." 

 Upon the sea-shore it has been remodelled into a strati- 

 fied clay, and the bowlders it once contained now form 

 terraced beaches. Professor Hind, however, notices the 

 occurrence of "drift clay, capped by sand," in precipitous 

 banks rising seventy feet above the level of the Moisie. 

 River, twenty miles from its mouth. 



Before giving an account of the rnarine clays and their 

 fossils, which should naturally come in at this place, I 

 would draw attention to the numerous raised beaches 

 that line this coast. 



Raised Beaches. — Some of the finest examples of 

 raised beaches and rock-shelves representing ancient coast- 



* Up the River Moisie, loc. cii., N. $., vol. i. p. 88. 



