ISO A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



The next two days were climatically repetitions of the 

 Fourth, a light easterly wind holding the ice in the har- 

 bor. Going ashore over the cakes, we spent the day in 

 entomologizing, and here the first grasshopper occurred, 

 found floating in the water of a pool ; at first I thought 

 it was a wingless form called Pezotettix, from the short- 

 ness of its wing-covers, but it proved to be an allied 

 winged form ; two other wingless specimens were the 

 next day found on the hill-side ; a thousand-legs {jfulus) 

 also occurred under the leaves and sedges. 



The highest hill in sight from the deck of our vessel 

 was measured by Captain Handy from sextant observa- 

 tions, and found to be 397 feet above the harbor ; a hill 

 behind it rose to a height of over 400 feet ; another 

 higher hill, used as a lookout, was about 800 feet high ; 

 the mountain across the bay must therefore be not less 

 than 1,000 feet high, while those in the interior, near the 

 head of the hay, seen from the lookout, were probably 

 not less than 1,500 feet in height. Looking out to sea 

 from this high elevation the ice was everywhere in view 

 with leads between the floes, and here and there a vessel 

 caught in them, besides two broad, massive bergs ap- 

 parently forcing their way through the ice-field. On the 

 top of this hill we were in a region of transported rocks, 

 genuine ice-borne bowlders, which could be seen on all 

 sides dotting the tops of the neighboring hill?; they were 

 of all sizes, an occasional rocking-stone among them ; 

 one huge rock was nearly forty feet long and fifteen feet 

 high. Many were overgrown and partly concealed by 

 the matted growth of the curlew berry ; bowlders are 

 also seen scattered over the bottoms of the shallow 

 ponds, and in the brooks and streams. They appear to 



