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where theyenclosed a slumbering 

 meadow. Three separate rills 

 poured down the splintered rocky 

 chasm — one the overflow of a 

 distant lake, bine, like a sap- 

 phire, in the caribou barrens— 

 their movement in bounds and 

 cascades, betrayed by shimmer- 

 ing reflections of light. A tall 

 pinnacle of rock rose from a 

 narrow ledge on the lip of this 

 romantic recess, and from this 

 viewpoint the whole picture, in- 

 expressibly beautiful, chaste, re- 

 mote and absorbing, could be 

 reflectively scrutinized. 



The Long Range is an old axis 

 of elevation. It belongs to the 

 great archsean complex, which 

 has been so widely emphasized and 

 described as the nucleal mass of the 

 North American continent. It is a crystal- 

 line aggregate of schists and gneisses, en- 

 closing granite areas. In Newfoundland 

 the entire western and northwestern exten- 

 sion of the island, from a line crossing from 



FIG. IO. WAREHOUSES, ST. GEORGE'S BAY 



Bonavista Bay on the north to Fortune 

 Bay on the south, is a Laurentian terrace, 

 while the peninsulated southeastern ap- 

 pendage of Avalon — holding St. John's — 

 is Huronian, viz., slates, quartzites and con- 

 glomerates. Around the edges of both 

 and, in the former, with deep interior em- 



FIG. 9. ERODED AND SCULPTURED INTO SPHEROIDAL PROMINENCE 



