A LABRADOR SPRING 
325 fish weighing 5,789 1-2 lbs., averaging about 
18 lbs. apiece; the largest fish in this case 
weighed 34 lbs. 
During our stay at the old salmon-fisher’s 
at Mingan we saw something of the river of this 
name, and we paddled up the three navigable 
miles of its course to where it emerges from 
the high land of the interior, and falls some 
thirty feet over the Laurentian rocks to the 
level of the sandy shore-plateau. Except for 
the large volume of water, for the setting in the 
dark forest and the background of the mysteri- 
ous highland of the interior, these falls do not 
call for any especial mention. Below the falls 
the stream is one of considerable beauty, gen- 
erally about a quarter of a mile wide, flowing 
through the elevated plateau by banks of wind- 
blown sand and spruce forests and bordered 
by alders and birches. 
Just back of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s 
Post the river is rapidly wearing away the 
sand cliffs of the right bank, but, rebounding, 
it pursues a long S-curve to the sea. The char- 
acter and extent of this curve is shown by the 
fact that by one path from behind the salmon- 
fisher’s house the distance to the river is about 
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