The Labrador Peninsula 



the long fiords can vegetables be grown in the 

 open air. 



The southern watershed, south of latitude 

 52 degrees, is generally well wooded, and on 

 the central plateau black spruce, larch and 

 white birch grow, but they are generally very 

 small. After passing northward of latitude 

 52 degrees the summits of the hills become 

 bare, and continuing northward the barren 

 areas increase, so that in latitude 55 degrees 

 only small, stunted trees are found about the 

 low margins of lakes and water-courses, while 

 beyond latitude 58 degrees the conifers cease 

 to grow, and small arctic willows and birches 

 alone are met with. 



The interior is inhabited during the winter 

 by a few families of Indians belonging to the 

 Algonquin or Cree family. They are divided 

 into three tribes, the Montagnais of the south, 

 the Nasacaupees of the northern interior and 

 the coastal tribe of Hudson Bay. During the 

 summer nearly all descend to the Hudson Bay 

 posts on the coasts to trade and to meet their 

 relatives and friends; and they usually remain 

 at the coast from one to three months. 



The Eskimo are found scattered along the 

 coast from Hamilton Inlet to Hudson Strait 



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