172 A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



away. So well marked were the ice-worn hills about us 

 and elsewhere on this coast, that this snow-bank seemed 

 but the dwarfed descendant of the great multitude of 

 glaciers which had so recently filled the innumerable 

 bays, fjords, and "tickles" of this coast. That this is 

 not a mere fancy is shown by the following facts : 



Mr. Lieber, the geologist of the U. S. Coast Survey 

 Eclipse expedition of i860, which went near Cape Chid- 

 ley, the point we hoped to reach, speaks of walking over 

 a snow-bank on the flanks of Mt. Bache, which " was a 

 miniature glacier," while "a regular moraine was piled 

 up along its edges." Captain Handy told me that on 

 Savage Island, just north of Hudson's Strait, he saw in 

 August ravines full of ice; and on Button Island as 

 late as September 20 he found snow in the ravines. He 

 called them glaciers, one patch of snow being five hun- 

 dred feet long and two hundred feet broad. On Reso- 

 lution Island, only one hundred and twenty miles north 

 of Cape Chidley, he saw glaciers extending into the wa- 

 ter, from which small icebergs fell into the sea ; and 

 Captain Hall describes the Grinnell glacier on Meta 

 Incognita, which was two miles long, and discharged 

 icebergs into the sea. 



The next day the wind was against us, being north 

 and very light. The day was warm and pleasant, but 

 towards sundown cloudy, and as usual, as soon a§ the sun 

 goes down it becomes cold and chilly. Though the floe- 

 ice had now disappeared, a large number of bergs were 

 to be seen outside slowly travelling down the coast, 

 some of the smaller ones stranded a few miles from the 

 shore. After this date, and beyond Cape Webuc, we 

 were not troubled by the floe-ice ; for weeks we had 



