20 THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF LABRADOR. 



which flowed into the Atlantic on the east and south, 

 and Hudson Bay on the west and north. The forest 

 growths sometimes clothe the lower hills, but in general 

 are confined to the protected river-valleys and lake 

 basins. 



It is to be hoped that at no distant day some skilled 

 explorer, with a sufficient knowledge of geology, may 

 thread the interior of the peninsula from Ungava to 

 Hamilton Inlet, passing thence by the Esquimaux River 

 to the Strait of Belle Isle. The region from the head- 

 waters of the Hamilton River to Hudson Bay should 

 also be traversed, and when this is done we shall be pro- 

 vided with a knowledge of this vast, shadowy, gloomy, 

 forbidding region, of which we now apparently know 

 less than of the interior of Alaska, the tundras of Siberia, 

 br the plateaus of Central Africa. 



