m AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



The topography as well as the general ap- 

 pearance of Blanc Sablon at once strikes the 

 traveler coming down the coast as something 

 totally different from that of the country he has 

 been passing through to the west. Beginning 

 near the eastern limit of the Mingan Islands, 

 which with the adjacent shore are composed of 

 yellow Cambro-Silurian limestone laid in hori- 

 zontal strata, the stretch of three hundred miles 

 of coast by which we had journeyed as far as 

 Bradore Bay is of a uniform granitic or gneissic 

 character — primordial Laurentian rock, gray, 

 white, or red, molten and crystallized. It is 

 thrown about and piled up in hills and moun- 

 tains that are worn down by the ages, and re- 

 cently smoothed and grooved, scratched and 

 polished by the last ice age. At Perroquet Is- 

 land, near Blanc Sablon, one comes face to face 

 with a sudden change in the character of the 

 country, for here are dark-brown or red cal- 

 careous sandstones laid in horizontal strata and 

 forming flat-topped cliffs. Similar cliffs extend 

 to Chateau Bay and L'Anse au Diable, near the 

 entrance of the Straits of Belle Isle. The fossils 

 found in this stone show it to be of the Cam- 

 brian age, but although it is many millions of 

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