BULLETIN OF THE 



Geographical Society 



OF PHILADELPHIA 



VOL. Ill APRIL, 1902 No. 4 



Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition to 

 Nachvak, Labrador, in the year 1900. 



BY 

 E. B. DELABARRE, PH. D., 



Professor of Psychology in Brown University. 



Introduction. — I. Outline of the Voyage. — II. Summary of the 

 Voyage, and Meteorological Conditions. — III. Overland from Hebron 

 to Nachvak. — IV. Nachvak Bay and the Ascent of Mount Faunce. 

 V. Scenery of the Atlantic Coast of Labrador. — VI. Life on the 

 Labrador Coast. — VII. Scientific Results of the Expedition. — VIII. Re- 

 port on Botany. — IX. Report on Ornithology. — X. Report on Geology. 



INTRODUCTION, 



This is the record of an expedition of very modest pro- 

 portions and aims. As explorers none of the party had had 

 previous experience ; and only two were experts in the line of 

 work they undertook, both of them young in their respective 

 professions. These facts account for much that must neces- 

 sarily appear as of a more or less amateurish character in our 

 work and report. The results accomplished in spite of these 

 disadvantages, however, which have largely exceeded our 

 anticipations, show how large a field for further profitable 

 research still awaits the explorer. Large sections of the coast 

 are still without a first crude charting of any degree of ac- 

 curacy ; and the entire coast is much in need of thorough work 

 of this kind. Great ranges of the loftiest mountains on our 



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