. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. summer months, and sometimesas early as June, the Labrador coast is free from ice and opento navigation, but the ice conditions depend largely on thedirection of the wind. The mail steamer makes its last visitin November. The larger bays freeze solid in the beginningof December, and the coast generally remains ice-bound tilllate in June. Every sheltered harbor in Labrador is frozenover in the winter. Fogs occur throughout the year, butare on the whole rare; they prevail with easterly winds,and are most frequent during June and July. The rangeof spring
. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. summer months, and sometimesas early as June, the Labrador coast is free from ice and opento navigation, but the ice conditions depend largely on thedirection of the wind. The mail steamer makes its last visitin November. The larger bays freeze solid in the beginningof December, and the coast generally remains ice-bound tilllate in June. Every sheltered harbor in Labrador is frozenover in the winter. Fogs occur throughout the year, butare on the whole rare; they prevail with easterly winds,and are most frequent during June and July. The rangeof spring tides is from four to seven feet on the east coast,but at Cape Chidley and elsewhere in the Hudson Strait therange is from thirty-five to forty feet. The tidal streams atCape Chidley are extremely strong. It follows from the peculiar climatic conditions that thecoast is bleak, but the shores of bays and rivers, except of themost northern portion, are well wooded and in some casesdensely so, the timber being tall and sound. The trees are. Davis Inlet. Lat. 56° Photograph by courtesy of J. T. Rowland. Reproduced by permission of Outing
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