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5 “The Laurentian rocks [at Sandw 25 iat rise into high, rugged, and broken syenitic 
hummocks.”’— Packard, 1. c. 281 
6 ‘We pass St. Lewis Ba with ce rth shor ay syenitic. eadlands 
of syenite probably extend out from the gneiss mainla nd.’”’— Pac ard, lL. G ie (1891), 
TOTAL and the ‘Domino gneiss’ of Lieber esi protected seaward by hig! 
islands intermixed with low ge f skiers’, ’,’— Packard, 1. c. 158 (1901), 
8 
Packard, 1. c. a (1901 
“The i 
d on which Hop 
which behind the mission bia uriously contorted: - s fine-gr: me pare 
banded, with véins of quartz and of pie Packard, te c. 208 (1901). 
10“On going ashore at Ford’s Harbour [Paul’s Island], I found the gneiss to consist 
of common reddish and greyish varieties.” —Bell, Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Can., Rep. 
of Progr. for 1882-83-84, p. 11 DD (1884). 
11 “The rock here [Nain] consists of a rather light grey gneiss.”’— Bell, l. c. 12 
2“ At this mission station [Hebron], the rocks were examined and found to be con 
biotite gneiss and amphibolites, intersected void trap dykes,”— Daly, Bull. Mus, Com 
segs Harvard, Geol. Ser. V. no. 5, 216 (19 
3‘* The rock everywhere (Ungava Bay at Sock Burwell] consists of ordinary varieties 
L gneiss.’’— Bell, l. c 90 
ie Ts BOD s describes the nucleus of the mountain masses [Baffin oe as every- 
where gneiss in granite.”— G. M. Dawson, Geol Surv. Can., Ann. Rep. n. s. ii. 40 R 
(1887 
15 “T explored ~ Beperat [Nottingham Island] toa distance of about three serie in 
various directions 
of gneiss, the ne paar noticed being patches of a fine- grained red syenite on both 
avy of the inl oi ” — Bell, 1. c. 28 DD (1901). 
“The 
rocks on the west side of Ashe’s Inlet consist of dark grey gneiss, composed 
pinta of abet and felspar in even beds. The rocks in the vicinity of eed bay 
[St Agen of Wales wt i were found to consist entirely of Laurentian 
ide Bel, 1. ec. 21, 25, DD (19 
v7 “Tt [Richm ond dei} is surrou aoa by high hills. On the west, sharp cliffs, fo pela 
by the broken faces of the Manitonieck focies {felspathic cage eal which dip i 
the sea, rise in places twelve hundred feet above the water, The south and east be 
are bounded by lower bere hills of o otndeeiiey n and Huronian oh — Low 
Surv. Can., Ann. Rep. iii. 55 J (1888). d 
18 “At the Ssiin ar ite paiva nes ctl the rock is similar to mee eg: a 
from here to the mouth of the river all th expos es examined were m megs of ). 
and grey hornblende orthoclase gneiss, the et predominating.’”’— Low, l. ¢. £5 A888) 
19 “The greater part of the shore-l weve here [west side os Lake Mistassini] being fo 
of gneiss, perpendicular faces are wanting.””— Low, viii. 68 L (1 thic 
20 “ The-rock {at Port Churchill] is a greenish-gray enero false-bedded, felspa 
arkose sandstone.”— Tyrrell, Geol. Surv. Can., Ann x. 90 F (1897 th 
21 “Granites and gneisses occur along the vl sone of Baker an and down be 
— of Chesterfield Inlet to its mouth,’”— Tyrrell, 1. ¢. tx, of 
“The rocks of the southeast extremity of “ictevish Bay | routheaster a a 
reat Bear Lake] are described as red granite ebiegnitnc iver 
% “Near the easternmost [channel of Slave "River, wt hich aap name ed “John's a 
(Riviere & Jean), is Stony Island, a naked mass of granite, rising fifty or sixty feet pent ; 
the water; and beyond that, to the eastward, the banks of the lake [Great Slave La 
are wholly primitive.”— Richardson, Arct. Search hing Exped. 97 né 
They [Laurentian rocks] occupy most of the northern shores of Athabasca he 
Black Lakes." Throughout the greater portion of the area, the rock cons nsist s of 
reddish-gray hornblen ende-granite, and ibtlte cravite or granitoid gneiss.”’ —T : 
1896). 
of the 
coarse sandy debris of granite. , , -Rhododen dron cum, Kalmia glauca tpotfaia, 
nosum, Em “ i akan r lie 
indromeda [Cassiope] tetragona, and several depressed or creeping willows, 
close to the soil.”— Richa en 1. c, 416 (1852), 
