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CHAPTER XXIX. 



A BRIEF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF 

 THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. 



HISTORICAL NOTICE. 



Origin of Name — The Cabots — Gaspar de Cortei'eal — Brest — 

 Its former Importance — The Ruins of Brest — Bradore Bay — Cause 

 of the Decline of Brest — The Count de Courtemanche — M. de 

 Brouagnes — The Labrador Company — Old Esquimaux Fort — 

 Importance with which Labrador was formerly regarded by the 

 French — Proposed Treaty with the Emperor Louis Napoleon — 

 Eetarding Influence of Seignorial Grants — Mingan — Natash- 

 quan — Acadian Settlers. 



GEOGKAPHICAL PEATUEES. 



Paucity of our Knowledge respecting the Interior of the I^abrador 

 Peninsula — The Moisie Gulf Watershed — The Ounaneme — 

 The Region drained by the St. John, the Mingan, the Ounaneme, 

 and the Natashquan — The Region drained by the St. Augustine 



— Importance of the St. Augustine — Indian Route to Hamilton 

 Inlet — Migrations of Animals on the St. Augustine — Rich 

 Hunting-groimd — Sterility of the Coast in the neighbourhood 

 of the St. Augustine — Hamilton Inlet — The Ashwanipi, or 

 Hamilton River — The Great Falls — Description of the Ash- 

 wanipi below Fort Nasquapee — The Kenamou River — The 

 Nasquapee or North-West River — The Country North and 

 North- West of Hamilton Inlet — The Countiy South of the 

 Inlet — The Plateau between the Inlet and the Gulf of St. 

 Lawi'ence — The Valley of the Ashwanipi 100 miles from the Inlet 



— Hudson's Bay Company's Farm at Rigolette — The Ungava Dis- 

 trict—South River — George's River — The Lakes of the District — 

 Lake Caniapuscaw — General Aspect of the Country — The Red 

 Spruce — The Country West of Ungava Bay — Basaltic Columns of 

 Henly Harbour — The Mistassinni Country — Infinite Number of 

 Erratics — Michaux the Botanist — His Journev acroiis the Neck 



