Anticlinal

(ăn-ti-cli'nal.) [Gr. anti, and cl ino, I incline.] (Geol.) Applied to an axis, the strata of which slope in opposite directions; in opposition to synclinal (Gr. syn, together), when the strata dip towards each other. Anti cost i, a large desert island of Lower Canada, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, between Lat. 49° and 50° N., and Lon. 62° and 65° W. Area. Estim. at 2,600 sq. m. Interior mountainous and wooded; climate severe. N. coast high, and without harbors; S. shore low, and very dangerous. On its S.W. point is a lighthouse. [s. 35]