no A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



By sundown our vessel had made only ten miles, be- 

 ing off Belles Amours, with a southerly and very light 

 breeze. The sunset was a glorious one, while the moon 

 rose through the haze and mirage over the snow-banks 

 of the Newfoundland coast. At three in the afternoon 

 we saw several miles ahead of us the fields of ice which 

 we were soon to encounter, choking up the straits, and 

 enhanced in apparent extent by the mirage. The Labra- 

 dor coast, along which we were sailing, is very bold and 

 bluff-like, with lower points of land reaching out to us 

 in a picturesque way, the remarkably even outline of the 

 coast being interrupted by the Bradore Hills. 



The dredge was put down about two miles from shore 

 in from ten to fifteen fathoms on a hard, stony bottom, 

 with good success. Beautiful specimens of Lucernaria 

 quadricornis , four inches in height and of a dull amber 

 brown, came up in the same dredge with that superb 

 naked mollusc, Dendronotus arbor escens, which were of a 

 beautiful amber hue, dotted with white points. From 

 the stomachs of fishes caught by some of the party were 

 extracted specimens of a rare arctic crab (ChionoeceUs 

 opilio), which proved to be not uncommon in from ten 

 to fifty fathoms in the Straits of Belle Isle. 



The next day, from nine in the morning until three in 

 the afternoon, we moved slowly through the floe-ice, 

 which proved to be the outskirts of the immense fields 

 of ice which this summer lined the northern coast of 

 Labrador. Mr. Bradford kept his photographer busily 

 at work taking views of the more remarkable forms. The 

 splendid green hues, so varied and striking ; the endless 

 variety in the water-worn forms ; the weird noises, now 

 harsh and grating, now loud and roaring, produced by^the 



