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On the south side of the dome, where spruce bushes make their appear- 
ance a few hundred feet below the summit, there were patches of snow on 
July 21, one of which was 300 feet long by 100 broad. No snow was seen 
on the north side, so that probably the snow sweeps across the dome and 
lodges on the southeast side forming great drifts, some of which, probably, 
remain until fresh snow falls in the autumn. 
A mile to the west, with a slight dip between, there is another elongated 
dome of the same kind, with an elevation of 4,210 feet. 
The cairns on the tops of these two domes were made, no doubt, by 
the botanists camped on the shore of lake C6t6 a mile to the south. There 
are two fine lakes here, the larger, called lake C6te from the head guide of 
the botanists, the smaller one west of it, named Fortin for their interpreter 
who was the writer's head guide in 1918. The elevation of Cote lake is 
3,400 feet and that of Fortin lake 3,390; they have their outlet toward a 
branch of Magdalen river, here flowing south. The two domes of the 
botanists form part of the main watershed of Tabletop. 
The southernmost summit (Plate VI B), about 3 miles from the last 
mountain described, is a rather steep-walled ridge rising above a wooded 
tableland and bearing two small peaks about a third of a mile apart, one 
to the east, the other to the west, built of great, loose blocks of granite, 
separated probably by weathering along the joints. These sharp points 
are unique and striking because all the other summits are more or less 
domes and several have very gentle slopes. 
Beyond the sharp descent the tree-covered tableland extends for a 
mile or two eastwards and southwards toward lower ground, and toward 
the west it runs nearly level to the edge of the ravine cut by the Magdalen. 
Northeast there are two lakes of a cirque-like character, one flowing into 
lake Cotd, the other on the east side of a narrow ridge and much lower 
down, resembling basins on the west side of the group of Tabletop mountains. 
The region shows no proof of ice action except the small cirque basins 
eaten into the massif from the outer slopes, and these were formed by local 
cliff glaciers probably at a late stage of the ice Age; but one other feature 
appeared at first to suggest an ice cap over the highest part of the mass. 
Boulders of granite occur on several of the western summits resting on 
schist, which rises above the nearest granite, but the reverse is not found. 
This might be interpreted to mean the movement of an ice cap outwards 
from the higher granite domes toward the marginal mountains whose 
summits are of schist. 
It seems more probable, however, that the granite once stood above 
the schist and has been lowered by differential weathering, since granite is 
much more rapidly attacked than schist. The small boulders of granite 
now resting on schist represent, it may be supposed, the cores of large 
blocks that rolled down when granite stood at a higher level. 
The block-covered summits of the hills and mountains of Tabletop 
and the entire absence of boulder clay, moraines, or smoothed and striated 
surfaces argue strongly against an outward movement of ice from the 
centre; and these features, along with the sharp-edged, northwestward- 
facing cliffs at the edge of the table, provide conclusive evidence against 
the supposition that the Labrador ice-sheet ever crossed the Shickshocks. 
On the gentler slopes, at 1,500 feet and lower, boulder clay containing 
striated stones from the mountains shows that ice moved outwards toward 
the sea, as indicated at numerous points inland and along the coast. 
