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tours of a few of them. Of the thirty or more larger fiords 

 a few will be noted, beginning at the most northerly one 

 on the Atlantic coast. Some stress will be laid on the 

 landmarks which may be of service to future explorers 

 in the far north. 



South of Cape Chidley Island is the channel connecting 

 Ungava Bay with the Atlantic. Separated from that 



FIG. 1. CAPE CHIDLEY 



1. 1950 ft. Mt. Sir Donald on south side of Grenfell Tickle; 2. The cape; 3. Post 

 tion of Killinik; 4. East coast of Labrador; 5. Gray Straits. 



channel for some ten miles only by a narrow, rocky ridge, 

 is a long inlet which I explored .in the small steamer Sir 

 Donald during the year 1897. We entered this inlet while 

 searching for the channel above mentioned. We steamed 

 up about ten miles, the water being, as usual, deep on both 

 sieves. Finding at that distance a good circular harbour 

 on the north side, we dropped anchor in good mud at six 

 fathoms. We thence scaled the highest hill on the north 

 side, finding the summit too precipitous to ascend until we 

 reached its southwest shoulder. The summit was found 

 to be only about nineteen hundred and fifty feet above sea, 

 but it commanded a glorious view. We could see Ungava 

 Bay in the west, the Button Islands in the north; to the 

 east, the Atlantic beset with numerous islands; to the 

 south, a great array of the rugged peaks stretching away 



