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...example, witness the photograph of a thoroughly scoured and denuded area of southern Newfoundland which was unquestionably crossed by very recent ice. Here (at Burgeo) the granitic hills are absolutely stripped of all soil and rotten rock-mantle, and the conspicuously striated ledges contain gourges which look as if they might have been hacked only yesterday by a sharp mattock or heavy chisel. In this region, too, great boulders as large as small houses are scattered irregularly over the hills, the boulders having fresh and undecayed surfaces...
...high tablelands are deeply carpeted with a mantle of angular frost-broken and lichen-crusted material; transported boulders are not seen, or are small and conspicuously weathered; and the cliffs have very high talus-slopes, such as that of Hannah's Head on the lower Humber. The largest area in which the surface mantle is undisturbed and the rock-walls covered with a rotted crust that has never been scraped off is on the western side of the island, embracing the Long Range of mountains and the adjacent foreland...
...Area Invaded Long...
...parts of this area, especially along the valleys and on the lower slopes of the hills, there are obvious signs of recent glaciation, but in others the rare glacial striae and the few transported boulders present are so far obliterated or rotted away that Professor Coleman concludes these regions were invaded only at the very beginning of Pleistocene time (many hundreds of thousands of years ago). On some of the tablelands, to quote Coleman's words, "No signs of glaciation were seen above the edge of the escarpment at 970 feet (aneroid), and a walk of four or five miles...
...bases of fantastically weathered slopes, such as those of Western Head, or ascending pathless mountain-ides by working one's way (always in the face of rock-slides) up the precipitous walls, as at Tucker's Head on Bonne Bay, one comes suddenly upon a plant occupying an area of only a few square rods and never before known to botanists, the excitement is intense...