. The Labrador coast. A journal of two summer cruises to that region. Natural history; Eskimos. CHAPTER IX. A summer's Cruise to northern Labrador. IV. HOPEDALE AND THE ESKIMO. About- an hour before we reached Hopedale, we passed a high sugar-loaf-shaped island, "The Beacon," with four well-marked terraces carved by the weather or shore-ice when the sea stood at different levels in the ages gone by, as the land halted in its upward rise. This. ROCK TERRACES ON "THE BEACON," 70O FEET ELEVATION, NEAR HOPEDALE. was the landmark for the Moravian vessels from London, and by boil
. The Labrador coast. A journal of two summer cruises to that region. Natural history; Eskimos. CHAPTER IX. A summer's Cruise to northern Labrador. IV. HOPEDALE AND THE ESKIMO. About- an hour before we reached Hopedale, we passed a high sugar-loaf-shaped island, "The Beacon," with four well-marked terraces carved by the weather or shore-ice when the sea stood at different levels in the ages gone by, as the land halted in its upward rise. This. ROCK TERRACES ON "THE BEACON," 70O FEET ELEVATION, NEAR HOPEDALE. was the landmark for the Moravian vessels from London, and by boiling water on the summit it had been ascer- tained to rise 700 feet above the sea. The rock was evi- dently that variety of syenite containing labradorite and green hornblende. In the interior a few miles distant was to be seen a high elevation, broad and massive at the base, but conical or nipple-shaped at the summit, and rising perhaps 1,500 feet above the sea. As we entered, on a Saturday afternoon, the harbor of Hopedale, which is situated at the head of a deep, 197. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905. New York : N. D. C. Hodges
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