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host's kind invitation to spend a week or more with him in the 

 spring, when the snow and ice should have disappeared, in examin- 

 ing the place with reference to its geology and for specimens. 



A rough climb brought us to the top of the ridge, and gave us a 

 fine view of the surrounding sea and country. We had been 

 followed by eight or ten of our dogs, and it was an amusing sight 

 to watch their efforts to follow us in our climb, and their repeated 

 tumbles and consequent slides down the icy slope some fifty feet to 

 the bottom of the descent. At length we are all safely landed, and 

 a brisk walk in the strong wind and rather cold, bracing air brought 

 us to the road. On our right was the lighthouse, but we did not 

 visit it. It is situated on the extremity of the point, and we learn 

 from the reports that it is in latitude 51° 27' 35", longitude 56° 

 50' 55". It is a circular lighthouse, height 155 feet, built in 

 1855. The light is of the second order, and visible eighteen miles ; 

 it is fixed and white. A whistle sounds every ten seconds in 

 foggy weather. This and the light on Greenley Island are the only 

 two lights on the coast ; no doubt another will soon be built, perhaps 

 near the rocks upon which the Edward Cardwell was so lately 

 wrecked. There at least 'ought to be one near that point of the 

 coast, though Beacon or Old Fort Island would seem to be the 

 best place for it. Our walk home was soon accomplished ; the after- 

 noon and evening passed away quietly, — a sermon read by one of 

 our number occupied the latter part of the evening, and we all re- 

 tired to rest early. 



Monday morning we left these kind-hearted people, with many 

 expressions of cordiality on both sides, and were soon travelling 

 towards home again, as this was the end of our journey. It was a 

 bright and clear, cool morning, and the dogs spun merrily along, well 

 shod and apparently quite over their lameness and sore feet. We re- 

 turned by the same road as that by which we had come, as far as 

 L'Anse Claire, and then, veering to the left, followed the coast to 

 the strangely located abode of another hospitable and well known 

 family, at the foot of the central point of the sandstone chff here 

 situated midway between L'Anse Claire and Blanc Sablon ; this is 



