LITTLE MECATTINA AND MUTTON BAY 



sor Reginald Daly ^ found at Ice Tickle, on 

 , the eastern Labrador coast, that poised boul- 

 ders occurred only above the 265-foot con- 

 tour-line, while at Hopedale the highest shore- 

 line was at 390 feet. 



Many of the rock-surfaces at the summit 

 were nearly as smooth and polished as when 

 they were left by the ice, and they showed 

 well the scratches and grooves made by the 

 glaciers. These scratches radiate from the 

 center of glaciation in the middle of the penin- 

 sula. I kept note of their compass direction 

 in different places as I went east and found 

 them to vary as regards true north from south 

 3° west to south 35° east. The variation of 

 the compass at Natashquan is about 30° to 

 the west of north. I crossed a deep gorge on 

 the tops of gnarled and twisted alders and 

 spruces, a brook babbling unseen below me, 

 and slid down steep slopes in the slippery 

 mosses, as Audubon had done in the same place 

 eighty-three years before. It was all good 

 exercise and very exhilarating in the clear 



' The Geology of (he Northeast Coast of Lahraior, Bulletin 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, vol. 

 XXXVIII (1902), p. 255. 



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