W. H. Twenhofel — Physiography of Newfoundland. 7 



with an almost vertical front, in some places 

 reaching the sea ; but usually with an inter- 

 vening foreland. To one approaching ^New- 

 foundland from Sidney to Port aux Basques, 

 the most impressive feature is the high flat- 

 topped upland, here rising almost vertically 

 from the sea — the southern extremity of the 

 Long Range. If Newfoundland be observed 

 from the Labrador side, one feature will 

 attract and maintain the attention : the flat- 

 topped upland, standing boldly and promi- 

 nently in view with a low plain on either 

 side, widest toward Cape Norman way — the 

 northern extremity of the Long Range. The 

 sky line of the Long Range is strikingly hori- 

 zontal and the appearance of an equal height 

 in all its parts is not a fiction resulting from a 

 distant view, for it remains the same near as 

 well as far, while a very cursory study of 

 Howley's map confirms the evidence of direct 

 observation. At many points in this range 

 are u table mountains." Such is that forming 

 its terminus on the southwest and rising to an 

 elevation of 1700 feet. Here for fully fifty 

 miles parallel to the railroad, which follows 

 the west coast, is the steep western front, ris- 

 ing like a wall, little cut up by erosion and 

 with the top of the wall reaching to one level. 

 On the west side of the railroad, opposite this 

 table mountain, is the triangular block of the 

 Anguille Mountains, built upon the older 

 Paleozoic sediments and rising to a height of 

 1832 feet, more than 100 feet higher than the 

 mountain to the east. The name of Table 

 Mountain might with justice be applied to 

 this block. At the Bay of Islands is Mount 

 Blomidon, 2125 feet high, with a table top, in 

 the central portion of which is a lake. Table 

 Mountain at Bonne Bay, 2336 feet high, is 

 almost as flat on its summit as a western 

 prairie, the surface rising gently from the 

 margin toward the middle. It has been thor- 

 oughly shattered by the movements to which 

 it has been subjected, favoring the formation 

 of angular gravel through sun and frost action, 

 and were it not for a mantle of such gravel a 





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