. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. typical of this part of the is one mile wide at the entrance, but becomes widerwithin. Several islands lie at the entrance. Nine miles fromthe entrance there is good anchorage at Black Fly this point navigation is intricate, but small vesselsmay ascend some five miles farther, where a sand flat andboulders, nearly dry at low water, extend across the headof the inlet and the mouth of St. Lewis River. The treesincrease in number and size from the entrance to the headof the inlet, owing to the change of climate. Black Fly Is-land and
. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. typical of this part of the is one mile wide at the entrance, but becomes widerwithin. Several islands lie at the entrance. Nine miles fromthe entrance there is good anchorage at Black Fly this point navigation is intricate, but small vesselsmay ascend some five miles farther, where a sand flat andboulders, nearly dry at low water, extend across the headof the inlet and the mouth of St. Lewis River. The treesincrease in number and size from the entrance to the headof the inlet, owing to the change of climate. Black Fly Is-land and the shores on either side are thickly wooded withspruce and birch, supplying timber suitable for buildingschooners and boats and for fishing-stages. The scenery isbeautiful, the granite hills rising occasionally, on either sideof the inlet, from seven to eight hundred feet above the sea. In the annual reports of the Moravian Brethren from theearly part of last century, Mr. W. G. Gosling* has found * Labrador, New York, 1911, pp. Near Assixvaban River. A short distance inland. Lat. 56^. Markland {f^ By courtesy of IV. B. Cabot
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