A LABRADOR SPRING 
western extremity of the bay, and forms the 
various mountainous islands that block its 
mouth. Everywhere the ridge stands up as an 
impressive rocky barrier to the view from 600 
to 1,000 feet in height, attaining in some places, 
as at Mount St. John, a few hundred feet more 
of altitude. This mountain is entered on the 
charts as 1,476 feet in height. Low, the Cana- 
dian geologist, states that several of the sum- 
mits in this belt are more than 2,500 feet above 
sea-level, and Hind found some of the mountain 
ranges about the Moisie River to be 3,000 feet 
high. 
The top of the ridge, although nearly level, 
presents rounded gaps, through which higher 
mountains can be seen. To the west of the 
Moisie River the mountains are wooded to their 
summits, while to the east of this point they 
stand up as barren rocky ridges, clothed here 
and there only with patches of forest growth. 
During the early part of our visit, snow was 
plentiful in the ravines, but it grew less towards 
the end of June. Everywhere this ridge in- 
vited and mocked us, and we longed to reach 
it, and explore its rocky fastnesses. Its barren 
appearance like that of the rocky hills further 
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