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heights, and will be found generally to agree in this re- 

 spect with similar beaches in the St. Lawrence River and 

 the coast of the British colonies and New England, 

 after making due allowances for local oscillations of the 

 land. At Chiteau Bay it could easily be seen that all 

 the terraces composing the different beaches were of the 

 same height ; and, so far as memory would show, in the 

 absence of actual measurement, all those beaches ob- 

 served farther northward presented terraces which very 

 generally corresponded in height with those of Chiteau 

 Bay. 



I am informed by Captain Ichabod Handy of New 

 Bedford, Mass., who has spent several years in Hudson's 

 Bay engaged in the whale fishery, and is a close ob- 

 server, having coasted in a whale-boat the whole shore 

 from Nain to Resolution Island in lat. 62°, that there 

 are several very high raised beaches near Hebron, and 

 also near Nain, one of which he roughly estimated to be 

 three hundred feet high. He observed that the beaches 

 north of Nain increased in height. There were also 

 beaches on Button Island. He noticed one on Reso- 

 lution Island, about two hundred feet high, which was 

 composed of three terraces. On the Lower or East 

 Savage Island he described to me a plain of soft clay ele- 

 vated fifty feet above the sea, into which he "sank knee- 

 deep," and perceived in it numerous " clams and mussels," 

 and also the skeleton of a whale, the " boar-head " whale 

 {Balaena boops), stranded upon the surface. This ancient 

 sea-bottom was flanked by a raised beach from thirty to 

 forty feet in height. 



At Sir Thomas Roe's Welcome he describes the 

 beaches as being higher than any observed southwards. 



