A LABRADOR SPRING 



environment, for no two of these trees were 

 exposed to exactly the same conditions of 

 sunlight, wind, depth of snow, soil, amount of 

 water, etc. 



A larch that grew on the wind swept islands 

 of Quatachoo, that was twenty inches tall 

 and forty-five in extent, with a trunk one and 

 one-half inches in diameter, had taken twenty 

 years to grow. Another larch exposed to the 

 winds of Esquimaux Island for one hundred and 

 ten years had attained a height of three feet, 

 a spread of eleven feet and trunk some two 

 inches in diameter; and after all these years 

 of struggle it was cut down by a traveller, but 

 I trust its memory will long remain green. 

 The only other larch I measured was a giant 

 in a sheltered valley of an island of Quatachoo, 

 and I scaled a steep rocky cliff by the shore 

 and waded through a snow bank to my waist 

 on the 2pth of May to take his photograph. 

 A robin and a white-throat sang in this shel- 

 tered valley while the surf thundered on the 

 outer shore, and scuds of sea-fog drove over 

 head, and in the stunted spruces close to the 

 snow bank on the upper slopes a white-crowned 

 sparrow, the aristocrat of his tribe, sang his 



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