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hardy heath family, dwarf cornels and bake- 

 apple flowers were everywhere in profusion. 

 To match these brilliant colours, a Wilson's 

 warbler in dress of lemon yellow with a shining 

 black cap sang from an alder thicket in the 

 shelter of some rocks, while a full plumaged 

 purple finch called my attention to himself 

 by a rapturous flight song, which he repeated 

 again and again as he fluttered upward, and 

 made me believe I had never heard a purple 

 finch sing so sweetly before. 



While the view to the north was barred by a 

 succession of rounded mountain tops, stretching 

 up gradually towards the interior of the Labra- 

 dor peninsula which, according to Low, varies 

 from i, 600 to i, 800 feet in height, the view to 

 the south showed the great coastal plain with 

 its bogs and lakes and forests, its sandy shores 

 and winding rivers, its fringe of limestone 

 islands, forested and still bearing here and there 

 patches of pure white snow, the sparkling blue 

 sea, and in the distance the blue outline of 

 Anticosti. When this coast was submerged in 

 the distant past so that the sea washed the bases 

 of this granite barrier and entered into the 

 deep valleys, a shore line similar to that of the 



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