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THE GEOLOGY OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



lines, about four hundred feet above the present coast- 

 line, are seen in the lowest Silurian rocks on both sides 

 of the Strait of Belle Isle. The following notes and 

 sketches were made while coasting along the northern 

 shore, which rises in high sandstone and gritty bluffs, 

 contrasting in their regular water-worn outlines most 

 strongly with the peculiar swelling curves of the Lauren- 

 tian gneiss which rise near Bradore — according to Bay- 



TERRACES AT ANSE-AU-LOUP, (A) (B) AND (C) LOOKING EASTWARD AT THE 

 NORTHEAST END OF THE CAMBRIAN FORMATION. 



field's measurements, one thousand two hundred feet 

 above the sea — or the jagged, rough, and hummocky 

 outlines of the rude syenitic hills, which rise four hun- 

 dred feet above the sea. At Anse-au-Loup, as seen 

 from one half to one mile from the shore, the land rises 

 on the west side of the bay in three very regular terraces 

 (A), the lower of which is covered with debris. On the 

 east side the land is much more irregular, descending in 

 buttressed steeps like the Palisades on the Hudson, 

 though far exceeding them in height. On the east point 



