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down certain hills, and not to the effect of snow- 

 water, since no such complaints are to be found 

 in Labrador, where genuine springs are so scarce, 

 that I may venture to affinn, nineteen parts out 

 of twenty of the waters in that country, are the 

 product of the winter snows. 



All along the face of the east coast, and within 

 the many capacious bays which indent it, are 

 thousands of islands of various sizes, on which 

 innumerable nmltitudes of eider-ducks, and other 

 water-fowl breed: the very smallest are not with- 

 out their inhabitants, if the spray of the sea does 

 not fly entirely over them; and the larger ones 

 have generally deer, foxes, and hares upon them: 

 the former will swim out to them, to get clear of 

 the wolves which infest the continent; but the 

 two latter go out upon the ice, and are left upon 

 them when it breaks up in the spring. 



All those kinds of fish which are found in the 

 Artie seas, abound on this coast; and the rivers 

 are frequented l)y great abundance of salmon, and 

 various sorts of sea-trout; pike, barbel,* eels,^ 

 river-trout, and some few other kinds of fresh- 

 water fish are also found in tliciii. 



Althou<;li, in sailing along this coast, the aston- 

 ished marinei- is insensibly drawn into a conclu- 

 sion, that this country was the lasl which God 

 made, and th;it he had no other view than to throw 

 together there, the refuse of his materials, as of 



' The Furopoan barbel is not nutivo to Anicrica. CartwriRht possibly 

 rrfj-rs to n «iu k*T or to h homofl funM . 

 ' Anguilla chryHypa. 



