SOME LABRADOR RIVERS 



two hundred yards, by another, a straight 

 path by the telegraph wires, the river lower 

 down is reached at a distance of over a mile, 

 while along the beach to the mouth of the 

 river the distance is about three-fourths of a 

 mile. The continual wearing back of the right 

 bank by the impact of the river at the summit 

 of the curve threatens the little settlement 

 between it and the gulf, and it would not be 

 difficult to calculate when the river will break 

 through at this point, and wash the Honour- 

 able Hudson's Bay Company's Post into the 

 sea. 



We were casting our flies for trout one day 

 from a sandy beach at the mouth of the Mingan 

 River when two competitors appeared in the 

 shape of a pair of seals, loups marines, 

 wolves of the sea the habitants call them, and 

 indeed they are nearly right both from a bio- 

 logical and practical point of view. It was a 

 pretty sight to watch their gambols, as with 

 arched backs they would rush above the sur- 

 face, and then disappear, or would throw them- 

 selves half out of water with a mighty splash 

 in the excitement and enjoyment of the chase. 

 I tried hard to see the trout in their jaws, but 



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