A LABRADOR SPRING 



than any Sargeant will bee to arrest a man for 

 debt." 



The temperature of this Labrador spring as 

 revealed by my thermometer was rather cool, 

 for, as Whittier says: 



" The Gulf, midsummer, feels the chill blockade 

 Of icebergs stranded at its northern gate." 



It averaged during the last part of May and 

 the first part of June about 43 Far., morning 

 and night, and 50 at midday in the shade. 

 At night the thermometer generally went down 

 to 32. During the last part of our stay in 

 June the average was 46, morning and night, 

 and 51 in the middle of the day. The 

 highest temperature was 62 at mid-day on 

 June loth. Unfortunately, like all good ex- 

 plorers, I broke my thermometer on June i yth, 

 so that I had no record for the last six days 

 of our stay. 



Although it was often bitterly cold in the 

 wind and out of the sun, it was often delight- 

 fully warm when these conditions were re- 

 versed, and a complete sun-bath was sur- 

 prisingly free from any sensations of chilliness, 

 in fact " toasty warm " even in the neighbour- 

 hood of a snowbank which, by reflection, in- 



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