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goes to Bras d'Or, seventy-five miles distant, with his wife 

 and children on one sledge, drawn by ten dogs. Scarcely 

 any travelling is done on land, the country is so precipi- 

 tous and broken. Fifteen miles north of here he says 

 there is a lake, represented by the Indians as four hun- 

 dred miles long and one hundred broad, and that this 

 sea-like lake is at times as rough as the ocean in a storm. 

 It abounds with fish, and some water-birds resort there, 

 and breed by millions along its margin. We have had a 

 fine day, but Mr. R. says that the summer has been un- 

 usually tempestuous. The caraboo flies drove our hunt- 

 ers on board to-day, and they looked as bloody as if they 

 had actually had a gouging fight with some rough Ken- 

 tuckians. Here we found on this wonderful wild coast 

 some newspapers from the United States, and received 

 the latest intelligence from Boston to be had at Labra- 

 dor." 



^''jfiily 24 and 25 were engaged in hunting birds and 

 drawing, and contain much valuable information on 

 ornithology, which is given in the " Birds of America." 



" jfuly 26. We left our anchorage, and sailed with a 

 fair wind to visit the Chevalier's settlement, called Bonne 

 Esp^rance, forty-seven miles distant. When we had gone 

 two-thirds of the distance the wind failed us ; calms were 

 followed by severe squalls, and a tremendous sea rolled, 

 which threatened to shake our masts out. At eight 

 o'clock, however, we came abreast of the settlement, but 

 as our pilot knew nothing of the harbor, the captain 

 thought it prudent to stand off, and proceed on to Bras 

 d'Or. The coast here, like all that we have seen before, 

 was dotted with rocky islands of all sizes and forms, and 

 against which the raging waves dashed in a frightful man- 

 ner, making us shudder at the thought of the fate of the 

 wretched mariners who might be thrown on them. 



'' Ju^y 27. At daylight tliis morning we found our- 



