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the range in Ungava Bay is said to be as much as fifty feet. 

 In any case the range in this bay is one of the greatest 

 recorded in the world. 



Since the magnetic pole lies to the north-northwest of 

 Hudson Bay, the magnetic variation is very high on the 

 Labrador coast. At Battle Harbour it is 40 west ; thence 

 it increases until it is more than 53 to the west at Cape 

 Chidley. The visitor cannot fail to be struck by the fact 

 that, during auroral displays, the middle of the illuminated 

 arc, which flames over the magnetic pole, lies to the north- 

 west, far from the north star. 



It should be emphasized that the charts of the region 

 north of Hamilton Inlet are of little or no practical value 

 to the navigator. They are only of value in giving general 

 directions and in furnishing a crude pictorial idea of the 

 coast. 



The climate of Labrador is not excelled anywhere in 

 the world for its bracing and invigorating effect. Testi- 

 mony gathered from hundreds of workmen, prospectors, 

 visitors, sailors, fishermen, officials, lumbermen, and 

 scientific men have shown that, without exception, their 

 general health has improved, and they have been able to 

 sleep quite a material proportion of the twenty-four hours 

 longer than at their own homes. Of this in my own ex- 

 perience of seventeen years, I have had many remarkable 

 instances. 



Labrador has no endemic disease, and though, like all 

 subarctic countries, it is the home of many mosquitoes, 

 there is no malaria. Notwithstanding the great number 

 of Eskimo dogs bred and kept in the country, I have 

 never known nor heard of a single case of either hydro- 



