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across the Port and stretching on beyond its head, were the 

 steep flanks and knurly sides of the Thoresby group ; on an- 

 other side the sea; and in front stretched out the deer coun- 

 try — a wide, level plain, filled with small lakes, and inter- 

 rupted by numerous low hills rising out of it like islands. 

 We could see around for many miles. A Labrador landscape 

 has decided charms of its own, in spite of the lack of trees. 

 Where the naked rocks project or cliffs fall steeply, they pro- 

 duce an impression of strength and grandeur. But the 

 country is not all made up of mountains and bare rocks. 

 Vegetation is abundant, and many of the rounded hills are 

 green with moss and grass. The low, thick scrub relieves the 

 closeness of the other growths, and produces a velvety im- 

 pression at a distance. The hilltops here are not bestrewn 

 with Httle pools, as we have found them in some places ; but 

 the lower ground has an abundance of water and thick,mossy 

 growths of many colors." 



Of the Kiglapait, August 13: "The most striking 

 part of the coast we passed was the Kiglapait, a high ridge 

 a little north of Port Manvers, which the Pilot says is not 

 less than 2,000 feet in height. Daly, who is good at such 

 estimates, believes it to be about 3,800 feet in height. Its 

 summits are long and jagged, stretching out one after the 

 other in a long series.* They fall sharply to a long, low, 

 rounded hill lying in front of them on the seashore, and have 



* See Daly, loc cit., pp. 218, 267 : "The axis of the range runs due 

 east and west, parallel to the coast line, which here has an exceptional 

 trend. The sierra is not more than thirty miles in length, but, on account 

 of its conspicuous position on the shore, is strikingly picturesque. Ten 

 distinct and individual summits from two thousand five hundred to four 

 thousand feet in height could be counted from the schooner. . . . The 

 Kiglapait is unmeasured, unmapped, and absolutely unknown as to com- 

 position." 



