748 EAST COAST OP LABRADOR. 



Hospital. — -Thfi hospital has seven beds for adults and two cots 

 for children. It is provided with an operating room, dispensary, 

 out-patients' room, and the usual requisites. 



Ice. — A boat got into Okkak through the ice on the 21st of June, 

 1905. 



Mosquitoes are numerous and very troublesome at Okkak. 



Ogua lik (Cod island) lies with its southern extremity, distant 12 

 miles from Saddle island in a direction 300°. Table hill at its south- 

 eastern end rises abruptly from the sea to the height of 2,000 feet, and 

 there are two dome-shaped hills near its northeastern side. This 

 side is indented by several deep narrow bays, and the southern of 

 these, immediately northward of Table hill, is reported to afford 

 good shelter. 



A rock, some 7 feet high, lies about 1 mile southward of Ogua lik. 



Nanuktut (White Bear island), improperly named cape Mugford 

 by some of the Newfoundland fishermen, lies northeastward about 3 

 miles from the northern end of Ogua lik, and is remarkable and un- 

 mistakable ; it rises to a number of apparently inaccessible peaks, the 

 three highest of which are situated at the northern, western, and east- 

 ern ends, respectively, and are probably not less than 1,500 feet high; 

 that at the eastern end is isolated, rising perpendicularly from the 

 sea, and sloping steeply on the northwestern side to a low neck 30 

 feet high, by which it is connected to the remainder of the island. 



A bight, about 400 yards across, is situated between this hill and 

 the outer peak at the northern end. The eastern side appears bold-to, 

 but the northwestern coast is more shelving, with bowlder beaches 

 at intervals. This island is lighter in color than the land westward 

 of it. 



Na nu ya tuk is a small island, about 100 feet high, lying south- 

 westward a little more than 1 mile from the southeastern end of 

 N anuktut. 



Bishop's Mitre, situated west-southwestward, about 7 miles from 

 Nanuktut, is a remarkable mountain, about 3.000 feet high; the gap 

 in its summit is open except on southwesterly bearings. 



Mugford tickle runs westward of Ogua lik and between it and 

 Bishop's Mitre; the length of this channel is about 4 miles, and its 

 least width is 1,300 yards in the middle. H. B. M. S. " Scylla " 

 passed through this tickle in 1905, and the least depth obtained with 

 two machines constantly going was 55 fathoms. 



The cliffs on each side are almost perpendicular and attain heights 

 of 1,000 to 1,500 feet. Their lower half is hard gray rock, and the 

 upper a dark friable formation which is disintegrating into fine grit. 



Trees. — The northern limit of trees on the coast is between Okkak 

 and Hebron and approximately in latitude 58°. 



