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THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. 



CHAT 1 . XIII. 



young brood. The tracks of different animals were so 

 numerous that I determined to rise before daybreak and 

 try iny luck with a rifle. 



The lake where we camped was one of the most sin- 

 gular and beautiful we had yet seen ; it had no striking 

 feature of rock-scenery, but its shores were broken by low 



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DESCENDING THE NIPISIS. 



promontories, thinly wooded, stretching far into it, backed 

 by walls of gneiss from 200 to 300 feet high. Within 

 half a mile of our camp was a snow-white rock, one 

 which we had mistaken for ice many miles before we 

 came opposite to it, and we almost doubted the Nasquapee 

 when he assured us from the first that it was not snow or 

 ice, but white rock. I went early to my spruce-carpeted 

 tent, hoping to wake at dawn, but rather overdid it, 

 waking at half-past twelve instead of two, and fearing to 



