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UNGAVA , an unorganized territory of the Dominion of Canada, including the north-western side of the peninsula of Labrador (q.v.), bounded by Hudson Bay on the W. as far S. as East
coast
Newfoundland
recent
coast
long band of little disturbed iron-bearing rocks, resembling the Animikie, or Upper Huronian of the Lake Superior region, near its easternside. Along Hudson Bay shore there is a strip of similar rocks, and a long row of small islands of the same age, with great
trap or diabase forming the tops of the hills. The iron formation is widely spread. There is evidence that Ungava, like the rest of Labrador, has risen several hundred feet since the Ice Age, marine beaches being found up to 700 ft. on the Hudson Bay side; and it is interesting to find seals like those of the adjoining seacoasts in the Seal Lakes loo m. inland and Boo ft. above the present sea-level. Owing to its northerly position a large part
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