THE MUSEUM. 



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casionally. The Grebe was called 

 there the Wabby, and rather rare, 

 but they were somstlmcs taken. 

 Rarely what we suppos:?J were Teal 

 Ducks nests and eggs were found, ^ — 

 but we were never certain of the spe- 

 cies. In the straits of Belle Isle the 

 King Eider's nest was found several 

 times. Five to si.x species of small 

 Gulls and Terns, but the birds did not 

 always let us identify them. When 

 the eggs themselves were distinctive 

 it was easy enough. 



The cut of the end of Greenly Is- 

 land in your last number, gives a very 

 imperfect idea of the place. No one 

 would imagine that there was soil 

 enough for the birds to burrow from 

 eighteen inches to two feet deep. 

 But the picture represents a shadow 

 picture, and in the relief of the shad- 

 ow the burrows were so thick that a 

 board a foot square could hardly be 



put on the ground, within the area of 

 some three to four acres of land, with- 

 out covering at least part of one or 

 more burrows. 



I do not wish or mean to make this 

 an "advertising dodge. " I ma}/ never 

 visit this place again: where I have 

 had so much sport; shooting birds by 

 the hundreds, collecting eggs by the 

 thousands, and fishing for trout at the 

 rate of five hundred a day, and selling 

 them at fifteen dollars a barrel (salted) 

 and clearing a good handsome profit 

 at that — but I would like to take a 

 company of ten nice fellows who 

 would put in $ioo apiece, from Que- 

 bec to Belle Isle or beyond and re- 

 turn. I would start June i and re- 

 turn August I. I would go equiped 

 for all sorts of investigation, espec- 

 ially Geology. I want to study the 

 Geology of this region. 



I send you a beautiful. picture of gla- 



Marain at the teiminus of a glacier ;l:dii where the glacier entered the ocean. 

 Eight miles west of the Eskimo River mouth. 



cial terminal moraine at the bottom of 

 Old Fort Bay, seven miles in the in- 

 terior. 



The hills above have a height of 



from 300 to 500 feet above the sea. 

 The ridge between the sea, and the 

 lakes and valley beyond is as smooth 

 and even as if cut by "sail and com- 

 pass." 



