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Out North Land. 



and Company, one on the mainland and one on George's Island, and 

 the lighthouse on Greenly, constitute all there is to be seen, except 

 the stunted vegetation which spreads over the somewhat level sand- 

 stone formation of the coast. These were not more attractive than 

 the immense icebergs which studded the Straits like small white 

 islands. 



Capt. Blandford, the agent of the Job Brothers' station, at once 

 recognized the Neptune, which he commanded in his last sealing 

 voyage, taking the almost unprecedented catch of 42,000 seals, and 

 pushed out from the shore in a fishing-boat, and, assisted by three 

 fishermen, pulled toward the vessel. They had a struggle. At 



one minute the little 

 craft stood perpendi- 

 cular, bow upwards ; 

 at the next her posi- 

 tion was reversed ; 

 every now and then 

 the waves broke com- 

 pletely over the men, 

 but they struggled on; 

 there were moments 

 when we entertained 

 serious fears for their 

 safety, but they came 

 through, and were 

 soon on board, greeting their old friends of the Neptune's crew 

 warmly. 



I cannot pass this strange-looking country called the Labrador, 

 which is geographically, and ought to be politically, a part of the 

 Dominion, but which, through some mismanagement or mistake 

 of inter-colonial affairs, has wrongfully drifted under the wing of 

 Newfoundland, without making a few observations on some of its 

 more striking features. It extends from Blanc Sablon to Cape 

 Chidley, and embraces the country eastward to the height of land. 

 Along the Straits of Belle Isle the country is quite level, owing to 

 its sandstone formation; but, in the interior, and to the north of the 



THE LABRADOR GOAT. 



