CXCLY 
Terra DE Lae 
BRADOR. 
T ERR A DIE we A BRA DOI. 
males return to fhore, and, by Augu/f, are joined by their conforts, with the cubs, 
by that time of a confiderable fize *. 
The eaftern boundary of the bay is Terra de Labrador ; the northern part has 
a ftrait coaft facing the bay, guarded with a line of ifles innumerable. A vaft 
bay, called the Archiwinnipy Sea, lies within it, and opens into Hudfon’s 
Bay by means of Gulph Hazard, through which the Beluga Whales dart in 
great numbers. Here the Company had a fettlement, for the fake of the fithery, 
and for trading with the E/kimaux; but deferted it as unprofitable about the 
year 1758 or 1759. ‘The eaftern coaft, fo admirably defcribed by that ho- 
nored name, Sir RocGER Curtis +! is barren paft the efforts of cultivation. The 
furface every where uneven, and covered with mafles of ftone of an amazing 
fize. It is a country of fruitlefs vallies and frightful mountains, fome of an 
aftonifhing height: the firft watered by a chain of lakes, formed not from fprings 
but rain and f{now, fo chilly as to be produétive of only a few {mall Trout. The 
mountains have here and there a blighted fhrub, or a little mofs. The vallies are 
full of crooked ftunted trees, Pines, Fir, Birch, and Cedars, or rather a fpecies 
of Juniper. In lat. 60, on this coaft, vegetation ceafes. The whole fhore, like 
that on the weft, is faced with iflands at fome diftance from land. ‘The inha- 
bitants among the mountains are Indians; along the coafts, E/kimaux. The 
Dogs of the former are very fmall ; of the latter, large, and headed like a Fox. 
Notwithftanding they have Rein-deer, they never train them for the fledge ; but 
apply the Dogs to that ufe ¢. Walrufes vifit a place called Nuchvdnk, in lat. 60, 
during winter ; from thence they purchafe the teeth, with which they head their 
darts. Davis fufpected that he had found a paflage on this coaft, in 1586, to the 
Weftern ocean ; but it proves no more than a deep bay. 
The laudable zeal of the Moravian clergy hath induced them to fend, in the 
year 1752, miffionaries from Greenland to this country. They fixed on Nifbet’s 
harbour for their fettlement ; but the firft party was partly killed, partly driven 
away. In 1764, under the protection of our government, another attempt 
was made. ‘The miffionaries were well received by the E/Rimaux, and the miffion 
goes on with fuccefs ||. Thefe pious people, like the Jefuits, have penetrated 
almoft into every part of the knownworld ; and, for the fake of the Gofpel, 
dared the extremities of heat and cold. They endeavour to humanize the favages 
of Greenland, and improve the morals of the foft inhabitants of the unwholefome 
coafts of Bengal. They are not a¢tuated by ambition, political views, or ava- 
* See an ingenious and laudable Calendar of Hud/on’s Bay, publithed by Doctor Macfait, in his 
new Syftem of Genera] Geography, 348 to 3545 t Pa. Tranf. \xiv. 372. t Same, 386. 
4 Crantz, Hifi, Morav. 404, 698. p 
Tice. 
