170 A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



would otherwise be quite tame elevations into high, bold, 

 wild-looking peaks. 



We went into Indian Harbor, which is an island from 

 ten to fifteen miles from the mainland, forming the 

 northern side of the entrance to Hamilton Inlet, to find 

 a pilot for Cape Harrison, but none could be found. 

 Near here is Ice Tickle, where the ice is usually de- 

 tamed later than elsewhere. Around one high head the 

 murres are very abundant ; it was evidently a favorite 

 breeding-place for them ; indeed all through the polar 

 regions we imagine that these sea-fowl (murres, dovkies, 

 sea-pigeons, and guillemots) are somewhat local, breeding 

 about certain high headlands and inaccessible crags and 

 cliffs; vvhile the puffins select points where they may 

 burrow and mine in the crumbling rock. 



Around the head of this harbor, and especially well 

 marked on ttie southwest side, is a noble beach at least 

 150 and most probably 200 feet high, lodged between 

 two hills ; its shingly surface was free from vegetation, 

 and it looked as though the waves had receded from it 

 but the night before ; it was divided into two steps or 

 terraces, the lowermost perhaps about 50 feet above the 

 harbor. It was a constant source of regret that there was 

 no means at hand of accurately measuring the height of 

 these beaches: not an aneroid barometer was aboard, and 



THK COAST BEIWEEN CAPE HARRISON ANU SLOOP HARBOR BEARING TEN MILES- 

 WEST. 



I was quite unprepared for their accurate study. Indeed 

 almost no attention has been given to the subject of 

 ancient sea-margins in the United States, the terraces of 



