. Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition to Nachvak, Labrador, 1900 . rills trickleor foam among the hills. Toward the north, owing probablyto some difference in the perviousness of the soil, these poolsbecome less numerous. The views from the hilltops areenchanting, embracing always a picturesque combination ofthe peaceful inland rolling country, the feeding-ground of thecaribou; of distant mountain tops, row behind row, withsnowy patches on their sides; of bays and harbors, capes and * Compare the following description by Daly, on page 210 of hisreport: From any commanding hill on island or
. Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition to Nachvak, Labrador, 1900 . rills trickleor foam among the hills. Toward the north, owing probablyto some difference in the perviousness of the soil, these poolsbecome less numerous. The views from the hilltops areenchanting, embracing always a picturesque combination ofthe peaceful inland rolling country, the feeding-ground of thecaribou; of distant mountain tops, row behind row, withsnowy patches on their sides; of bays and harbors, capes and * Compare the following description by Daly, on page 210 of hisreport: From any commanding hill on island or mainland, the eyeranges far and wide over a surface showing everywhere the evidence ofuniversal and profound glaciation. Unobscured by forest, soil, or thickdrift, and singularly expanded because of the crystalline clearness of theatmosphere, the view typifies that which may be had in the LaurentianHighlands of Canada, or in the Archaean of the Scottish Highlands. Itis a great wilderness of innumerable rounded, ice-worn hummocks, gen-erally gneissic in K E. B. Delaharre, Ph. D. 129 promontories, presenting a much broken and indented coast-line; and of the sea, covered often with scattered bergs andice-floes, and dotted with the numerous islands. The interior is said to be well wooded and far from bar-ren, even almost to the northern extremity. But near thecoast one rarely see trees of any notable size. At Hope-dale and Nain there are small groves near the missionstations; but elsewhere we met them only deep in the baysand in sheltered valleys a considerable distance—five or tenmiles at least—inland.* Thus, when not entirely lacking,they form an unobtrusive feature in the usual low vegetation that predominates clothes the countrywith a close green mantle, but leaves its shape and naturaloutHne unconcealed. Inorganic nature reveals herself in herown primeval character, leaving all the strength and charmand variety that she can assume naked to obser
Size: 1269px × 1970px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidreportofbrow, bookyear1902
