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the employees at the two stations. These rivers take 

 their rise in the great Laurentian watershed which 

 bisects the peninsula and separates the northern and 

 southern districts, and which continues to the shores 

 of Lake St. John. Altogether there are five Hudson 

 Bay Company posts in Labrador, and trails lead from 

 one to the other, the most northern post being Fort 

 Chimo, on Ungava Bay, now presided over by Eobert 

 Crawford, formerly of Ked Kock, on the Nepigon. 

 Upon the plateau of this great watershed, which 

 drains a territory of 450,000 square miles, are innu- 

 merable lakes, some of which are of vast extent and 

 others small. These lakes are the sources of all the 

 Laurentian salmon streams, as well as of hundreds 

 of other streams barren of salmon, which, like Mont- 

 morenci, find their way to the sea or river over pre- 

 cipitous falls from 150 to 400 feet in height. To the 

 visitor who navigates this rock-bound coast in sum- 

 mer, these falls greatly relieve the sombre effect of 

 a usually monotonous landscape, though there are 

 bits of scenery as picturesque and rugged as the 

 coasts of Norway and the North Cape. 



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