Labrador, the country and the people . Raised Gravel Beach at West Bay, South Side of Entrance to Hamilton Inlet. Half-tide View of the Shore at Ford Harbour GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NORTHEAST COAST 135 plained. With no theory to support or refute, manyreputable observers among the fishing population state thatthey have time and again noted, during periods of from thirtyto sixty years, cases where rock-ledges have come per-ceptibly nearer the sea-surface, where new channels havehad to be sought among the shoals for the passage of theirfishing-boats, and where the stages must be again and againle
Labrador, the country and the people . Raised Gravel Beach at West Bay, South Side of Entrance to Hamilton Inlet. Half-tide View of the Shore at Ford Harbour GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NORTHEAST COAST 135 plained. With no theory to support or refute, manyreputable observers among the fishing population state thatthey have time and again noted, during periods of from thirtyto sixty years, cases where rock-ledges have come per-ceptibly nearer the sea-surface, where new channels havehad to be sought among the shoals for the passage of theirfishing-boats, and where the stages must be again and againlengthened over their bed-rock foundations in order to se-cure a depth of water sufficient to float their small gentleman of St. Johns has made a study of the questionfor forty years, and has come to the conclusion that eleva-tion is still in progress along the whole coast. He believesthat the rate of uplift is about twice as rapid in northernLabrador as in Newfoundland. He has found among theolder settlements of the island some where the inhabitantsare in a very unfavourable position for plying their
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