Labrador, the country and the people . Glacial Boulders on a Ridge near Ice Tickle Harbour. Bear Island, Wave-washed and then Uplifted GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NOETHEAST COAST 181 equally hardy mosses, but, in the main, the ledges seem asbare of vegetation as if the sea had retreated from themonly yesterday. The bed-rocks of the Labrador are old-mountain rocks,toughened in the early days when they lay in the heart ofthe mountain-chain. They are giving pause to the greedy,unending assault of the ocean wave, which is findingon the present shore, as it/found on the higher ones,that, while glacial b
Labrador, the country and the people . Glacial Boulders on a Ridge near Ice Tickle Harbour. Bear Island, Wave-washed and then Uplifted GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NOETHEAST COAST 181 equally hardy mosses, but, in the main, the ledges seem asbare of vegetation as if the sea had retreated from themonly yesterday. The bed-rocks of the Labrador are old-mountain rocks,toughened in the early days when they lay in the heart ofthe mountain-chain. They are giving pause to the greedy,unending assault of the ocean wave, which is findingon the present shore, as it/found on the higher ones,that, while glacial boulders are playthings, the bed-rockoffers work, — grim, arduous work that must continuemany, many thousands of years before the stubborn head-lands will yield to the onset. For this double reason,first, the shortness of the time during which the emergencetook place, and, secondly, the sturdy resistance of the solidrock to wave-battering, the newly emerged land bearsrelatively few strong cliffs or other scenic forms cut by thewaves in the living rock. Nevertheless, where favourably si
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