SHECATICA AND JACQUES CARTEER 



I could plainly see that she was not of the 

 red-legged subspecies which breeds still far- 

 ther north, but the sad bird — Anas rubripes 

 tristis — of my friend Brewster. 



But it was not all sand and moss and water 

 here, for there were smooth granitic ledges on 

 the shore, on some of which I found and photo- 

 graphed the interesting glacial markings known 

 as "lunoid furrows." I had previously noticed 

 them at Natashquan, at Grand Romaine, and 

 at Little Mecattina. These markings were 

 transverse to the direction of glaciation as 

 shown by the grooves, and varied from a few 

 inches to a foot or more long and extended 

 about an inch into the rock. As their name 

 indicates, they are crescentic in shape, and the 

 convexities of the curves point in the direc- 

 tion from which the glacier came. They sug- 

 gest that the ice or graving tool had caught 

 and hitched along, tearing out the rock. Pro- 

 fessor R. A. Daly, in his paper on "The Geol- 

 ogy of the Northeast Coast of Labrador," 

 says: "From a somewhat prolonged study of 

 the typical examples at Hopedale, the writer 

 was led to believe that these lunes were only 

 potential when the ice-sheet disappeared. . . . 

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