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one hundred feet in height. The country here extends back, Hke 

 that of the other side in a series of elevations. The basin of the 

 bay is like that of a fiord valley, and extends directly inward for a 

 short distance, then bends in an almost easterly direction. From 

 east to south the land is low, while from north to west and south 

 the hills are often six hundred feet high, and a more or less level 

 piece of country extends back in a west direction for a consider- 

 able distance. Towards the north the country is broken, as it is 

 all along, though not to so great an extent as in this direction, into 

 ponds and even in one instance a large lake. Labrador is known to 

 be a region of lakes in its interior. Perhaps it is more so than many 

 imagine. In some cases large lakes cover quite an area of coun- 

 try. They appear in such cases to be the resultant drainage of an 

 innumerable number of ponds, large and small. Thus these ponds 

 are ranged in areas of equal height, the highest ones being the 

 smallest, while next will come an extent of country that contains 

 several larger ones, and so on, each draining into the larger below 

 and all finally into one lake. The general idea is that of a huge 

 natural amphitheatre wherein the seats are tablelands extending 

 back for several miles, so that the top layer or seat consists of several 

 isolated and high peaks whose connecting medium is a marshy bog 

 with small puddles of rain and occasionally springs of water ; about 

 fifty feet lower an area of country extends inward, towards the cen- 

 tral pit of the amphitheatre, which contains several medium sized 

 ponds with a drainage from the pogls above, and with innumer- 

 able tiny rills flowing into them, and receiving more or less drainage 

 from within its own districts. Below this still another series of 

 ponds, much larger, receive drainage from the waters above, and 

 empty themselves below either into another series or, uniting in 

 some large pond, receive all this drainage and flow onward and 

 forward, through valleys and rocky gorges, with precipices and 

 rocky chfls on either side, miles into the country. After some 

 distance this again will unite with another large pond which 

 receives a similar drainage from some other direction ; thus, the 

 whole country presents an appearance most unusually grand and 



