Labrador, the country and the people . red birch and aspen, forming a pleas-ing contrast with the bare rocks of the summits. Thedistance, from the hospital station of Indian Harbour atits mouth, in a southwest direction to the head of the inlet,is slightly over one hundred and fifty miles, while its aver-age breadth is fourteen miles. Forty-five miles above theentrance, the inlet narrows and is only about a mile widefor upwards of five miles. During each change of tide astrong current with rapids occurs at this point. Rigolet, the headquarters of the Hudsons Bay Companyfor the Atlantic coast,
Labrador, the country and the people . red birch and aspen, forming a pleas-ing contrast with the bare rocks of the summits. Thedistance, from the hospital station of Indian Harbour atits mouth, in a southwest direction to the head of the inlet,is slightly over one hundred and fifty miles, while its aver-age breadth is fourteen miles. Forty-five miles above theentrance, the inlet narrows and is only about a mile widefor upwards of five miles. During each change of tide astrong current with rapids occurs at this point. Rigolet, the headquarters of the Hudsons Bay Companyfor the Atlantic coast, is situated on the north side of thelower part of the narrows. A village of Eskimo, made up of a cluster of small loghouses, occupies the shore of a small cove at the upper end;its chief interest hes in the fact that it is the most southerlycommunity of these people. The inhabitants have beenlong in contact with the white men, and have acquired manyof the virtues and vices of civihzation. 140 THE HAMILTON RIVER AND THE GRAND FALLS 141. 142 LABRADOR The inlet gradually widens above the narrows into LakeMelville, which is fifteen miles across in its widest eastern third is full of wild, rocky islands. The MealyMountains rise directly from its southern shores. Thenorthern side is also high, but there is often a wide marginof low land between the water and the rocky wall of thefiord. Northwest River enters on the north side, abouteighty miles beyond the narrows. The stream is onlyabout one hundred yards wide at its mouth, but averagesfifteen feet in depth. Half a mile upstream it expandsinto a small lake, which, three miles farther up, again con-tracts for four hundred yards to form the outlet of GrandLake, a large body of fresh water extending westward someforty miles, in a deep valley between high, rocky walls. A Hudsons Bay post is situated at the mouth of North-west River. It consists of some half a dozen small logbuildings. Early in the last century this was an im-por
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