198 COUNTRY ABOUT SALMON BAY. 



Soon these scenes of picturesque beauty began to be familiar 

 to us though we never tired of them ; while the new scenes or new 

 variations of old scenes repeated the picture in a more beautiful 

 manner and added the charm of freshness and expected change 

 to those which were to come. The long, narrow portages soon 

 gave way to wider and broader tracts of country through which the 

 way wound as before. The hills were reduced to low crests, and 

 open field-like slopes on ridge and high level plains appeared in 

 the distance. We soon crossed Salmon Bay, coming out of a long 

 arm-like expansion of the neighboring lands, and which formed the 

 centre of three, all similar expansions, the right and left of which 

 appeared more like sort of bays or rounded arms, as one looked 

 back upon the view from the opposite side of the bay. One or 

 two houses were visible, the first seen since leaving the river, a 

 distance of some five or six miles behind us. And here we came 

 to another of these strangely formed places or ridge-like openings 

 in the valley, between hills so often seen in different places all along 

 the coast, and which remind one of artificial, though they are in 

 truth quite natural, terraces. The height of this formation is about 

 thirty feet, its top is nearly level. On the left, looking towards the 

 sea, are the high hills of Bradore — though I do not mean the Bra- 

 dore hills so called, which are over eleven hundred feet in height 

 and situated some way back in the country, while those of 

 which I speak form the boundary of Bradore Bay on its extreme 

 western side and are only about four hundred feet high — with a 

 rather abrupt slope to this ridge. On the right a rather low crest 

 separated it from the sea. The ridge itself slopes to the water 

 on each side, at an angle of about 30° on the Salmon Bay, and by 

 a gentle rather than abrupt slope on the seaward side. The ridge 

 points in a northeastward and southwestward direction as do most 

 other similar ridges where I have seen them, and the direction of 

 the slopes, and general appearance of the top of the plateau 

 suggest to one's mind the final resting place of some arm of the 

 mighty Labrador glacier before or rather during the final plunge of 



