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the fiord, is such a cliff, 3400 feet high twice the height 

 of the famous Cape Eternity of the Saguenay fiord the 

 culminating point of a notched and bastioned wall ex- 

 tending seven miles to the southward. Often the vivid 

 and varied colouring of the rocks or the threads and broad 

 ribbons of numerous waterfalls cascading over the cliffs 

 enliven these scenes. How rarely the Inlet is visited ap- 

 pears in the fact that our schooner was the first sailing 

 vessel in eight years to cast anchor at the Hudson's Bay 

 Company Post of Nachvak. 



Both to south and to north of the Bay the mountains are 

 truly Alpine in form, their summits measuring more than 

 6000 feet in altitude. Indeed, some 50 miles to the north- 

 ward, at least one of the "Four Peaks" is believed to be 

 over 7000 feet in height. In any case, it is not too much 

 to say that the Torngats afford the most lofty land imme- 

 diately adjacent to the coast in all the long stretch from 

 Baffin Land to Cape Horn. When it is remembered that 

 these mountains rise out of the sea itself, not from an ele- 

 vated plateau as in the case of the Green Mountains and 

 the White Mountains (Mt. Washington about 6300 feet in 

 altitude), one may well be prepared to understand the fact 

 that in all eastern America there is no scenery that even 

 approaches in scale and ruggedness the Torngats of the 

 Labrador. 



At its southern end the range gradually assumes the tamer 

 profiles of a broken plateau. About fifty miles southeast of 

 Hebron, the Moravian mission station, the scenery once more 

 becomes specially impressive, but a wholly new element 

 appears in the landscape forms. Again we meet with a 

 boldness of relief extraordinary for eastern America, with 



