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CXCIV. 



' LABRADOR STONE. NEWFOUNDLAND. 



' where it arrived twenty-five minutes after two o'clock,, P. M, making an 



' avenue in its courfe of great width, tearing up trees, houfes, and ev^ery thing 



' that oppofed ; great quantities of leaves, branches of trees, even large limbs, 



' were feen furioufly driven about and agitated in the body of the column as it 



' pafTed along. When it pafied Rebellmi Road, it went on the ocean, which it 



' overfpread with trees, branches, &c. for many miles, as veffels arriving from 



* the northward fonie days afterwards informed us. The fky was overcaft and 



' cloudy all the forenoon : about one o'clock it began to thunder, and con- 



' tinued more or lefs till three. The mercury in Fareaheit's thermometer, at 



' two o'clock, flood at 77°; by four o'clock the wind was quite fallen, the fun 



' {hone out, and the fky was clear and ferene, and not a veftige of the dreadful 



' fcene remaining, but the difmafted'and difmantled veffels in the Road.' 



That curious body the Labrador flone, which refle£ls all the colors of the 

 peacock, is found there in loofe malles. The late Mr. La Trohe fhewed me a piece 

 of exquifite beauty, finely polifhed, which he procured from the laudable miflions 

 in that country. It is, according to Mr. K'irwan, -^feldt-f^at, fofter than the com- 

 mon kind. 



cxcvi. 1 mufl: acknowledge my obligations to vice admiral Ca?nphel, for the trouble 



he took in procuring, during his government, the following accounts from the. 

 different divifions of the great ifland oi Nezvfoundland •,^ and fome additions to the 

 manner of carrying on its moft important fifhery.. 



Within the circuit of fixty miles of the fouthern part, the country is hilly, but 

 not mountanous. The hills increafe in height as they recede from the fea ; 

 their courfe is irregular, not forming a chain of hills, but rife and fall 

 abruptly. 



The coafts are high,, and the fhores moft remarkably bold. The fame may be 

 faid of almoft every part of this vaft ifland. 



The country is much wooded, and the hills (fuch which have not flat tops, to 

 admit the rain to ftagnate on them) are cloathed with birch, wich hazel, fpruce, 

 fir, and pine, all fmall ; which is chiefly owing to the inhabitants taking off the 

 bark to cover the fifh ftages. This peninfula is fo indented by the fine and deep 

 bays of Placentia, St. Mary, Conception, and Trinity, that it may be eafily 

 penetrated in all parts, which is done for the fake of fowling, or the procuring of 

 fpars for mafls, oars, &c. 



The ifland is on all fides more or lefs pierced with deep bays, which peninfuiate 

 it in many places by ifthmufes moft remarkably narrow. 



The 



