196 A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



northward the whole country, or at least the coast, grad- 

 ually rises higher above the sea, which made me more 

 than ever anxious to see how it culminated in the wild, 

 crater-shaped, snow-streaked lofty mountains near Cape 

 Chidley ; but it was not to be our good fortune to reach 

 that promised land. 



