A LABRADOR SPRING 
nearly thirty years ago. Our expedition to the 
Romaine River was well worth while. 
The Moisie River is an old Indian route into 
the interior, by way of an east branch of the 
Cold Water River, Lake Ashuanipi and the 
Ashuanipi River, Lake Petitskapau and the 
Grand River. It was the Moisie River that 
Henry Yule Hind ascended in 1861, and of 
which he published in 1863 a most interesting 
work in two volumes entitled: ‘‘ Explorations 
in the Interior of the Labrador Peninsula, the 
Country of the Montagnais and Nasquapee In- 
dians.” Hind began the ascent of the river 
by canoes on June roth, 1861, and, after many 
difficulties and trying portages, reached on 
July 2d, by way of the east branch, the height 
of land 2,240 feet above the sea, and over a 
hundred miles from it in a straight line. On 
his return he ran some of the six formidable 
rapids and, on reaching the mouth of the Moisie 
early in July, he says ““we.. . took up our 
quarters under the hospitable roof of Mr. Holli- 
day, the lessee of the Moisie Salmon Fishery,” 
which is continued by the sons — who also 
own the line of mail steamers — to this day. 
I was glad to see the mist of the mighty falls 
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