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crimson spread forth wider; the red encroached upon the 

 blue in the purple of the lower cloud, until it became a mesh 

 of fire. The clear sky between the two banks assumed a 

 light olive-green hue. In it small detachments from the 

 larger clouds made stars and fleecy fringes of orange. A 

 narrow bar of gold shone just above the lower purples. The 

 dark masses of the two islands, curving together just under- 

 neath, framed in a picture of wonderful coloring. The crim- 

 son crept higher and wider, and lighted up the low-hanging 

 edges of the clouds above us, reaching finally around to the 

 farthest west. Broad bands of brighter light began to radi- 

 ate out from the centre of illumination, exactly as the con- 

 ventional picture always represents the rising sun, the reverse 

 of the shadows on far-off mist that are popularly supposed 

 to be 'the sun drawing water.' Into the struggle for su- 

 premacy of the two purples in the low-lying bank entered a 

 new element, a tangle of living gold. After this the blues 

 gained over the reds in the duller purples below ; the crimson 

 gave place to yellow; the line of gold on the higher bank 

 broadened and brightened ; the variety in coloring gave place 

 to increasing illumination, until at five o'clock a narrow open- 

 ing directly on the horizon, in the centre and bottom of the 

 almost meeting curves of the islands, gave a glimpse of the 

 sun's burning gold, and soon his disc had struggled above 

 the lower obstacles and gleams of cold sunshine fell on the 

 ship and the dark faces of the furrowed cliffs of the shore." 



In concluding this characterization of the scenery of 

 Labrador, I cannot better emphasize the preceding account 

 of its peculiarities than by giving from my diary a few ex- 

 tracts descriptive of particular localities. 



Of the islands north of the entrance to Hamilton Inlet, 



