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and falls with difficulty upon its destination of sea or land. 

 Nay, I cannot call it rain, as it is such a thick cloud of 

 water, that all objects at a distance are lost sight of at 

 intervals of three or four minutes, and the waters around 

 us come up and beat about in our rock-bound harbor, as 

 a newly caught and caged bird beats against the wire 

 walls of his prison cage. 



"July ii. The gale or hurricane of yesterday subsi- 

 ded about midnight, and at sunrise this morning the sky 

 was clear and the horizon fiery red. It was my inten- 

 tion to have gone one hundred miles further north, but 

 our captain says I must be content here. 



" On rambling over the numerous bays and inlets, 

 which are scattered by thousands along this coast, as 

 pebbles are on a common sand beach, one sees immense 

 beds of round stones (boulders ?) of all sizes, and some 

 of large dimensions, rolled side by side, and piled up in 

 heaps, as if cast there by some great revolution of nature. 

 I have seen many such places, and always look on them 

 with astonishment, because they seem to have been vom- 

 ited up by the sea, and cast hundreds of yards inland, by 

 its powerful retchings ; and this gives some idea of what 

 a hurricane at Labrador can do. 



" July 12. Thermometer 48, and it is raining hard, 

 and blowing another gale from the east, and the vessel 

 rocks so much that I am unable to finish my drawing. 



" July 13. Rose this morning at half-past three, and 

 found the wind north-east, and but little of it. The 

 weather is cloudy and dull, as it is always here after a 

 storm. I was anxious to stay on board, and finish the 

 di awing of a grouse I had promised to Dr. Kelly of the 

 Gulnare. But at seven the wind changed, and we pre- 

 pared to leave our fine harbor. We beat out to sea, and 

 made our course for the harbor of Little Macatine, dis- 

 tant forty-three miles. By noon the wind died away, but 



