102 LABRADOR 
the fiord, is such a cliff, 3400 feet high — twice the height 
of the famous Cape Eternity of the Saguenay fiord — the 
culminating point of a notched and bastioned wall ex- 
tending seven miles to the southward. Often the vivid 
and varied colouring of the rocks or the threads and broad 
ribbons of numerous waterfalls cascading over the cliffs 
enliven these scenes. How rarely the Inlet is visited ap- 
pears in the fact that our schooner was the first sailing 
vessel in eight years to cast anchor at the Hudson’s Bay 
Company Post of Nachvak. 
Both to south and to north of the Bay the mountains are 
truly Alpine in form, their summits measuring more than 
6000 feet in altitude. Indeed, some 50 miles to the north- 
ward, at least one of the “Four Peaks” is believed to be 
over 7000 feet in height. In any ease, it is not too much 
to say that the Torngats afford the most lofty land imme- 
diately adjacent to the coast in all the long stretch from 
Baffin Land to Cape Horn. When it is remembered that 
these mountains rise out of the sea itself, not from an ele- 
vated plateau as in the case of the Green Mountains and 
the White Mountains (Mt. Washington about 6300 feet in 
altitude), one may well be prepared to understand the fact 
that in all eastern America there is no scenery that even 
approaches in scale and ruggedness the Torngats of the 
Labrador. 
At its southern end the range gradually assumes the tamer 
profiles of a broken plateau. About fifty miles southeast of 
Hebron, the Moravian mission station, the scenery once more 
becomes specially impressive, but a wholly new element 
appears in the landscape forms. Again we meet with a 
boldness of relief extraordinary for-eastern America, with 
