312 THE GEOLOGY OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



and he also noticed clay-banks, containing shells, raised 

 above the present level of the sea. 



Prof. Hind has noticed some remarkable beaches far 

 in the interior of the southern part of the peninsula, and 

 at a great height above the present level of the sea. 

 Though this author does not refer to their rearrangement 

 by the currents and waves of the sea, his description of 

 the immense deposits of rounded and water-worn bowlders 

 agrees precisely with similar raised beaches both upon, 

 and a mile back from, the coast, observed by myself, 

 where they are covered by moss and Empetrum, or 

 stunted spruces. At " Burnt Portage," upon the river 

 Moisie, one hundred miles from its mouth, and 1,857 

 feet above the level of the sea, this author describes a 

 " hill of bowlders or erratics, all water-worn and smooth, 

 without moss or lichen upon them, and piled two or three 

 deep, and, for aught you know, twenty deep. . . . 

 The well-worn masses of all sizes, from one foot to 

 twenty feet in diameter, and from one ton to ten thousand 

 tons in weight, are washed clean. ... I could without 

 difficulty see three tiers of these ' travelled rocks,' and 

 in the crevices the charred roots of trees which had 

 grown in the mosses and lichens which formerly clothed 

 them." 



Another feature of great interest in this connection are 

 the rocky terraces or steps which have been hewn out of 

 the solid rocks along the coast for a height of five hun- 

 dred feet above the present level of the sea, and mark 

 the oscillations of the old coast-line ; and as there occur 

 in the interior of the country one thousand feet above 

 the present coast-line similar lines of erosion, they pre- 

 sent the best evidence we have, to determine how far 



