18G THE LABRADOE TENINSULA. chap, xxxii. 



I can compare the roar of the surf in a calm night to nothing 

 less than the Falls of Niagara. 



As we proceed in a north-westerly direction along a very- 

 rugged line of coast, with deep bays and indents, the 

 Great Inlet, called Esquimaux Bay, Invertoke Bay, or 

 Hamilton Inlet, opens to view. It is situated 250 miles 

 beyond the Straits of Belle Isle, the entrance being in 

 lat. 54° 23' N., long. 57° 25' W. 



It is by far the largest of the many inlets which indent 

 that part of the coast. At its entrance it is upwards of 

 thirty miles in breadth, thence decreasing, until at the Port 

 of Eigolette, about fifty miles from the sea, it is reduced to 

 about a mile in width, after which it again expands, and 

 about ninety miles from the sea forms a magnificent salt- 

 water lake upwards of twenty miles in breadth, and fully 

 thirty in length. At the western extremity of the lake, 

 it aixain contracts to a narrow width for a short distance, 

 above which it forms another lake about seven luiles 

 wide and twenty long, when the head of the inlet is 

 reached. Its total length maybe taken at 150 miles, and 

 its mean breadth about fifteen miles, exclusive of two large 

 arms that join it in the neighbourhood of Eigolette, the one 

 running to the south-east about forty miles, and the other 

 having a course nearly parallel to the main bay, and a 

 length of sixty miles. Including these arms, the surface 

 covered by its waters may be taken at about 1,700 

 miles. 



Many islands he off the entrance of the bay ; they 

 are also very numerous within it. Being of all sizes, 

 from the httle rock hardly large enough to stand upon, to 

 the large island many miles in extent, they add, in a 



