8 W. H. Twenhofel — Physiography of Newfoundland. 



bicycle could be ridden with ease on the top of the mountain, 

 a surface stated to have a length of six miles parallel to the 

 coast and four miles in the opposite direction. Its sides are very 

 steep and there are few places where it may be ascended 

 except with difficulty. The summit is almost bare of vegeta- 

 tion and that present consists of dwarfed plants occurring in a 

 few wet places or shallow bogs. The plane of this Bonne Bay 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 3. Table Mountain, Bonne Bay, 2336 feet high. Photograph by 

 Charles Sctmchert. 



" table " truncates the rock of all the systems in the region, no 

 matter what their structure or character, the elevations rising to, 

 or almost to, its level and there stopping either as peaks, 

 ridges, or " tables.- ' 



The Long Range scarp with its elevated valleys. — The slope 

 of the surface of Newfoundland rises toward the west till the 

 summit of the Long Range is reached, where an abrupt drop 

 of between 1500 and 2000 feet takes place. The line of west- 

 ward-facing cliffs, for the most part composed of crystalline 

 rocks, is almost a straight one, but is broken and offset to the 

 southeast at St. George Bay, south of which it continues in the 

 same direction as a straight line. West of the cliff face the 

 rocks are almost wholly sedimentary and, in general, do not 



