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The more southerly part of the coast, with its lower hills 

 and many islands, is full enough of beauty and attractiveness. 

 But the northern part is indescribably magnificent. It is 

 hard to imagine any coastal scenery possessing greater im- 

 pressiveness and grandeur than is afforded by the serrate 

 ridges and great rounded basins of the Kiglapait; the steep 

 clilTs crowned by the rounded summits of Mugford; the 

 strange symmetry of Bishop's Mitre; the intricate recesses 

 of Saglek Bay, shut in by lofty walls that descend from the 

 worn summits above it ; and the massive mountains that 

 crowd together in so great richness of form and grouping 

 about Nachvak. 



^ The charm of a landscape is never exhausted by the con- 

 formations of its surface alone, with its attendant growths 

 and other accidents. There are subtler influences of atmos- 

 phere and sky, of changing brightnesses and shades, of shapes 

 and colorings varying with the time of day, of transforma- 

 tions wrought by evening light, that are as important to its 

 total effect as are the more delicate bouquets to the flavor of 

 rare wines and fruit. Many of these finer elements are the 

 same in nature and give rise to similar impressions in Labra- 

 dor as elsewhere. A mere mention of them is enough to 

 convey a realization of their significance. Some special 

 words may be devoted, however, to the more striking and 

 less commonly distributed among them. 



The sea contributes a number of effects of especial inter- 

 est. Thus, mirage is of not infrequent occurrence, and is 

 said by the Newfoundland and Labrador Pilot to be "charac- 

 teristic of the few fine days of summer" off the Labrador 

 coast. The fishermen call it "loom." It may be caused by 

 distant low-lying mists, or by heated strata of air. The latter 

 were sometimes clearly visible in certain directions over the 



