A LABRADOR SPRING 



325 fish weighing 5,789 1-2 Ibs., averaging about 

 1 8 Ibs. apiece; the largest fish in this case 

 weighed 34 Ibs. 



During our stay at the old salmon-fisher's 

 at Mingan we saw something of the river of this 

 name, and we paddled up the three navigable 

 miles of its course to where it emerges from 

 the high land of the interior, and falls some 

 thirty feet over the Laurentian rocks to the 

 level of the sandy shore-plateau. Except for 

 the large volume of water, for the setting in the 

 dark forest and the background of the mysteri- 

 ous highland of the interior, these falls do not 

 call for any especial mention. Below the falls 

 the stream is one of considerable beauty, gen- 

 erally about a quarter of a mile wide, flowing 

 through the elevated plateau by banks of wind- 

 blown sand and spruce forests and bordered 

 by alders and birches. 



Just back of the Hudson's Bay Company's 

 Post the river is rapidly wearing away the 

 sand cliffs of the right bank, but, rebounding, 

 it pursues a long S-curve to the sea. The char- 

 acter and extent of this curve is shown by the 

 fact that by one path from behind the salmon- 

 fisher's house the distance to the river is about 



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