10 W. H. Twenhofel — Physiography of Newfoundland. 



Foreland of the Long Range. — Along the northern and 

 western sides of the island, the Long Range is fringed by a 

 foreland of greater or less width. It is widest along the Strait 

 of Belle Isle, approaching twenty miles, but decreases to about 

 ten miles at Port Sanders and holds this width nearly to Bonne 

 Bay. From Bonne Bay to Port au Port Bay the Long Range 

 reaches the sea and the foreland vanishes, but reappears at St. 



Fig. 4. 



Top of highlands 



Fig. 4. Profiles of valleys and upland at Bonne Bay. (Diagrammatic.) 



George Bay, where both shore and Long Range are offset to 

 the southeast. 



The surface of this lower level gives to the observer a 

 decided impression of flatness. Near the sea it is carved into 

 wide and narrow terraces, making the elevation immediate to the 

 shore quite variable, the average being about 75 feet. Inland, 

 elevations rise above 150 feet with many much higher, there 

 being at least three very high blocks of sediments, — Angnille 

 Mountains, St. John Mountains, and Portland Head. Many 

 parts are also low, and it is said that tidal waters go nearly to 

 the mountains at Paul Inlet, Parson's Pond and Portland Creek, 

 at each of which the shores are very low. There also appear 

 to be places where the land is higher on the shore than in the 

 backland, Mr. Thomas House, a fisherman at Table Point, 

 stating that the rear of the foreland in that locality is a marsh 

 considerably lower than is the shore. The presence of glacial 

 strise at many localities fixes the time of the carving of the 

 surface as pre-glacial. 



Uplands of the east and, central parts. — Of the east and 

 central parts the writer has no first-hand knowledge, but a 

 study of the published maps and sections and the literature 

 shows that the surface consists of a series of parallel valleys 

 lying in the softer sediments, separated by flat-topped ridges 



