CHAPTER IV 
THE GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF THE NORTHEAST COAST 
By REGINALD ALDWoRTH DALY 
“THe Labrador Peninsula is less known than the interior 
of Africa or the wastes of Siberia.’”? In these words the 
noted naturalist, Mr. A. 8. Packard, in 1891, summed up 
existing information on that anciently discovered but long- 
neglected land. Low’s fruitful journeys across Labrador 
have added much to the store of knowledge, but there is 
even now but little exaggeration in Packard’s statement. 
It was therefore with great and prolonged interest that the 
members of the Brave expedition of 1900 studied the 700 
miles of coast from the Strait of Belle Isle to the Hudson’s 
Bay post in Nachvak Bay. The Brave was a tight little 
schooner of but forty tons, specially fitted up to be the home 
of the exploring party for the summer. The party con- 
sisted of five Harvard men and one man from Brown Uni- 
versity. Three seamen and a pilot captain with a miracu- 
lous knowledge of the ten thousand islands, shoals, rocks, 
channels, and landmarks of “‘the Labrador,” sailed the little 
vessel. ) 
Leaving St. John’s, Newfoundland, on June 25, the 
schooner coasted all the way to Nachvak, which was 
reached on August 22. This slow passage gave the explor- 
ing party numerous opportunities to sample the natural 
history and geology of the coast. One member of the expe- 
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