308 THE GEOLOGY OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



On the eastern side of the same island is a beach of 

 the same height^ but much steeper, as it directly faces 

 the ocean, and more irregular than the one just described, 

 as its surface is broken by jagged masses of syenitic rock 

 which protrude through it, and by large masses of trap 

 which have fallen from the cliffs above. 



North of Henley Island is a broad flat beach consist- 

 ing of two low terraces, on the uppermost of which, and 

 commanding the harbor, are the ruins of an old fort 

 built during the last century. Also on the mainland 

 near the head of the bay are situated in bights in the 

 shore three low beaches, each composed of two terraces 

 overgrown with vegetation. They are all apparently of 

 the same height, and correspond in height with that of 

 the second beach or terrace on Henley Island. On the 

 east side of Pitt's Arm is another similar beach, and still 

 another at the head of the bay on the west side of the 

 stream emptying into this bay. Upon this latter beach 

 are large bowlders, often two feet in diameter. Across 

 the bay from Henley Island is a lofty steep beach slop- 

 ing towards the east, and of the same height. 

 ! It is an important fact that the present contour of the 

 coast, from the sea-level to a height of about five hun- 

 dred feet, also extends to at least fifty fathoms, or three 

 hundred feet below the surface of the water. Such we 

 found to be the fact in dredging for a distance of nearly 

 six hundred miles along the coast. The jagged nature 

 of the rocky terraces at Strawberry Harbor, so interest- 

 ing a feature in the coast scenery, extends at least to a 

 depth of two hundred and forty feet, a few rods from the 

 shore, as in anchoring with the kedge anchor it would 

 drop on to a rocky shelf, and then drag and fall twenty 



