. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. IV â. 252 GLACIAL MARKSâ THE "; cAas), who appeared several times, for my express benefit, I sup- pose, in plain sight, before finally disappearing into the underbrush at the right. The remainder of the forenoon was spent in examining the glacial rounded rocks, on which I found several well defined scratches, and in following the stream for a short distance to the meadows, or low marshy districts just beyond the houses; walking all the way on shelv
. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. IV â. 252 GLACIAL MARKSâ THE "; cAas), who appeared several times, for my express benefit, I sup- pose, in plain sight, before finally disappearing into the underbrush at the right. The remainder of the forenoon was spent in examining the glacial rounded rocks, on which I found several well defined scratches, and in following the stream for a short distance to the meadows, or low marshy districts just beyond the houses; walking all the way on shelving rocks that, nearly level with both meadow and stream, sloped off in large platforms into the water. This river, I am told, is navigable only for small boats, and for only two miles from its mouth, though I believe that the Indians travel somewhat farther in their canoes. As the people living here were mostly French I could glean but little from them. The harbor, however, is a mass of shoals even to the mouth of the river, whose eastern bank is sand, while the bed of tlje stream partakes somewhat of the character of the harbor, as far as I saw it, at least. I here heard the Canadian " russingel," full of most tuneful melody for which it is so noted throughout Canada. On the right bank of the river, and bordering the beach, are quite a number of houses, while a small island near by contains a cluster of as many more; altogether quite a settlement for this region. One large fishing establishment has about forty boats and two hundred hands engaged in the fish- eries, during their season; while there is a postoffice which receives mails to and from Quebec, Bonne Esperance, and the South Shore by packet, via Gaspe, touching at Anticosti, between which latter places a submarine cable has been recently laid, to give warning of the shipwrecks which are so constantly occurring on this island. Saturday the 28th. It was to-day, if I remember right, that we experienced the f
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