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tours of a few of them. Of the thirty or more larger fiords 
a few will be noted, beginning at the most northerly one 
on the Atlantic coast. Some stress will be laid on the 
Jandmarks which may be of service to future explorers 
in the far north. 
South of Cape Chidley Island is the channel connecting 
Ungava Bay with the Atlantic. Separated from that 
Fic. 1. Cape CHIDLEY 
1. 1950 ft. — Mt. Sir Donald on south side of Grenfell Tickle; 2. The cape; 3. Posi- 
tion of Killinik; 4. East coast of Labrador; 5. Gray Straits. 
channel for some ten miles only by a narrow, rocky ridge, 
is a long inlet which I explored in the small steamer Sir 
Donald during the year 1897. We entered this inlet while 
searching for the channel above mentioned. We steamed 
up about ten miles, the water being, as usual, deep on both 
sides. Finding at that distance a good circular harbour 
on the north side, we dropped anchor in good mud at six 
fathoms. We thence scaled the highest hill on the north 
side, finding the summit too precipitous to ascend until we 
reached its southwest shoulder. The summit was found 
to be only about nineteen hundred and fifty feet above sea, 
but it commanded a glorious view. We could see Ungava 
Bay in the west, the Button Islands in the north; to the 
east, the Atlantic beset with numerous islands; to the 
south, a great array of the rugged peaks stretching away 
