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Sim, Rain, and Snozv. — There was a fairly even propor- 

 tion of sun and rain. About one-fourth of the days were 

 wholly sunny; only about one-third of them were without 

 any sunshine at all. Very nearly half of the days had some 

 rain, though of these only 6 were rainy all day. The amount 

 of rain that fell was not large. Usually there occurred only 

 light showers or drizzle, and there was not a single really 

 heavy rainfall. Snow fell only once at sea-level, on Septem- 

 ber 8th. There were no thunder showers, though once or 

 twace single faint claps of thunder were heard, no lightning 

 being visible. The first half of the trip was more rainy than 

 the rest of it. Of the 49 days to August 12th, only 15 were 

 without rain, and 3 of these were overcast. The longest 

 periods without rain were 9 days from August 13th to August 

 2 1st, 3 of which were overcast; and 7 days from September 

 9th to September 15th, none of them wholly overcast. The 

 longest period of overcast skies consisted of 10 successive 

 days, from August 28th to September 6th, on 4 of which 

 there was rain, and on 2 a very small amount of sun. 



These observations compare with others accessible to us 

 as follows : The Pilot speaks of "the few fine days of Summer." 

 Lx>w (Explorations in the Labrador Pehinsula, 1886, p. 29), re- 

 marks : "During the summer season the precipitation, if not 

 great, is constant, as a day rarely passes without drizzle, or 

 thunder showers, which lower the temperature." Yet 

 Bryant (Journey to the Grand Falls of Labrador) speaks of 

 only 10 of the 41 days from August 4 to September 13, 1891, 

 as rainy, 3 as having occasional showers, and one as cloudy — 

 the remaining 27 being presumably largely sunny. During 

 the same period as Bryant, w^e, on the coast to the north of 

 Hamilton Inlet, had 15 days with more or less rain, though 

 of these 6 had a large proportion of sunshine ; and there were 



