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THE MUSEUM. 



Back in the country the lay of the 

 glacier is evident and very decided. 

 Three lakes form the resting places of 

 the last of the ice. The slide down 

 the bank was smooth as a planed 

 floor and a splendid coasting place in 

 winter. I have coasted over fifteen 

 feet of snow there often. This was 

 one of several arms of a larger arm of 

 what, with the discoverer's and first 

 describer's license, I call the Fort Is- 

 land Glacier, because I believe that 

 Old Fort Bay was mainly scooped out 

 by this glacier for a distance of four 

 miles, and that the ice went to pieces 

 just this side of the before mentioned 

 island. The moraine in the picture 

 was evidently a recisioii moraine. 

 Another glacial arm occurred at Cha- 

 teau Bay, still another near Battle 

 Harbor. At Blanc Sablon and a lit- 

 tle north occurred the Roaches Moii- 

 tonuies, or "Mutton, beetle, billow 

 rocks" as they are called. I judge 

 that the shallowness of the Straits of 

 Belle Isle is owing, in great part, to 

 the immense amount of glacial and 

 iceberg debris hurled or dropped into 

 it from time immemorial. But this 

 is not hunting birds' eggs. 



One reason why ^^'g hunters are 

 not more successful in this region is be- 

 cause they do not go to work the 

 right way to make their finds. 



To be successful one must become 

 acquainted with a good natured, in- 

 telligent and competent guide, and let 

 him pilot you into the interior and tell 

 •you what to do, where to go, and then 

 ■you with your previous intuitive 

 knowledge of your wants, go and^show 

 him how to do the hunting up of nests. 

 There are plenty of good finds to re- 

 ward the diligent hunter And I be- 

 lieve that many more than is gener- 



ally expected. May and June are the 

 months. Take a boat and go all up 

 and down the coast, in and out the bays 

 and harbors, among the cliffs and 

 crags. 



Who likes dredging.' I have many 

 a time promised myself a trip for this 

 one object alone. Insects, lichens 

 and even the generality of shallow sea 

 animals have been scarcely touched as 

 to collection. Fossils are plenty in 

 many a locality. All this along shore 

 simpl3^ The interior is a "new" col- 

 lecting ground. If you can fight the 

 black flies, (the inarin gojii iis I be- 

 lieve the French word for them is) 

 your visit will be well rewarded. A 

 windy day is the only time to go in- 

 land. If the wind dies down and finds 

 you there, I pity you, if your exper- 

 ience is at all as mine was. 



If we found the young of Wilson's- 

 Black Cap then why not find the nest 

 and eggs.' The Hudson Bay Tit- 

 mouse likewise. So also with the Pine 

 Grosbeak, Rusty Blackbird, Canada 

 Jay. Several of the Thrush family, 

 the Longspurs and Snow Buntings, 

 and a host of other summer residents 

 that I know breed there. 



If your Editor had copied my de- 

 scription of the Hudsonian Chickadee, 

 or the Horned Lark, or the Redpoll 

 Linnet, or the Snow Bunting I be- 

 lieve it would have inspired some one 

 to do some thing. It always fires me 

 even now to sit calmly down and read 

 those, or any one of those, four arti- 

 cles. It recalls so vividly the pictures 

 of pleasant waters, calm serenity, and 

 the exuberant gladness of mere exis- 

 tence, that it makes me lonesome. I 

 arise from my chair and put together 

 my double-barrel L. C. Smith, or take 

 from its case my 22 Winchester re- 



