l82 A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



in sight of high rounded mountains near the shore, 

 which appear to be not less than twelve hundred feet 

 high ; far back of them were several peaks, which rose 

 above a mass of clouds partly enveloping them, and 

 seemed to rise five or six thousand feet into the heavens. 

 The highest peak is Mt. Misery, and Captain French 



MOUNT MISERY, OR A IXAGAIGA 1 , 2, 1 70 FliET, DUR \V. OF CAPE HARRISON BY 



CHART. 



says that in clear weather the group seems very near 

 when viewed from the southern side of Hamilton Inlet. 

 I do not doubt but that this peak, which was obscured by 

 clouds for two days after, was not less than two thou- 

 sand feet high.* The view of this mountain, so trans- 

 formed by the clouds hovering just below its peak, was 

 the grandest coast view of the vo3'^age. 



Towards the end of the day we ran into Stag Bay, 

 some twenty miles north of Cape Harrison, after a pilot. 

 Dredging in this harbor at the depth of ten fathoms was 

 not very fruitful, except in some fine varieties or species 

 of the very variable genus, Astarte, including A. banksii 

 and A. compressa, and a Gammarus new to me. The 

 harbors on the Atlantic coast of Labrador have rather 

 barren rocky bottoms ; sea-weeds are scanty, the shores 

 are so steep; and there are so few large streams emptying 

 into the bays, that no sediments are carried down from 

 the land to form muddy or sandy bottoms. If the 

 floating-ice theory were true, we should have expected 



* My guess I found to be a good one, as I find Mt. Misery is put down in the 

 chart under the name of Allagaivaivik, with a height of 2,170 feet. 



