64 Our North Land. 



nation of the north-west of the peninsula of Cape Chidley. From 

 this shore the east coast of Ungava Bay trends W. S. W., four miles 

 magnetic, var. 50° W., to an islet forty feet high close to the coast. 

 The point of which this islet is the extremity forms the southern 

 arm or shelter of Port Burwell, and is called Cape William Smith. 

 The position of Flat Point is lat. 60° 29' N., long. 64° 44' W. 



Cape William Smith lies about six miles W. S. W. magnetic, 

 var. 50° W. from Flat Point. The shore in the locality is compara- 

 tively low. Position, lat. 60° 24' 44" N., long. 64° 44' 40" W. 



Cape Chidley is the northern extremity of the Labrador coast, 

 at the entrance to Hudson Strait, is one thousand five hundred feet 

 high, lat. 50° 25' N., long. 64° 11' W. 



The cape proper is the southern of two high islands, apparently 

 bold-to, and appears when seen from the southward as an island with 

 two lumps, the western being the higher, from which it is easy of 

 recognition. The northern ot these two islands is about one thousand 

 feet high. There is every appearance of deep water between these 

 islands, and between both and the main shore. From the northern 

 island the Labrador trends south-west, mas:. 50° var. W., a distance 

 of about ten miles, to an opening which is the entrance to McLelan 

 Strait. These rocks lie S. S. W., five and one-half miles distant from 

 the cape, the centre and highest one being fifty feet above high 

 water. The other two are about thirty feet high. An isolated rock 

 thirty feet high is the northern of the outlying rocks which skirt 

 the coast between the cape and Nachvak. From the cape the coast 

 trends N. by W. mag. ten miles, thence N. W. \ N. mag. a further 

 distance of six miles to Flat Point. 



The Button Islands, composed of four large and three or more 

 very small ones, lie to the north of Cape Chidley. The east 

 point of the South Button Island bears N. E. by N. mag., eight 

 miles distant from Cape Chidley, and a detached island one 

 hundred feet high, off the nearest point of the West Button Island, 

 N. E. by E. mag., eight miles distant from Flat Point. South 

 Button Island is about five hundred feet high, and is faced by small 

 cliffs, and has two smaller islands at the south and west extremities. 

 West Button Island has, generally, the same appearance, but is 



