CHAPTER IX. 



A summer's Cruise to northern Labrador. 



IV. HOPEDALE AND THE ESKIMO. 



About- an hour before we reached Hopedale, we 

 passed a high sugar-loaf-shaped island, "The Beacon," 

 with four well-marked terraces carved by the weather or 

 shore-ice when the sea stood at different levels in the 

 ages gone by, as the land halted in its upward rise. This 



ROCK TERRACES ON "THE BEACON," 70O FEET ELEVATION, NEAR HOPEDALE. 



was the landmark for the Moravian vessels from London, 

 and by boiling water on the summit it had been ascer- 

 tained to rise 700 feet above the sea. The rock was evi- 

 dently that variety of syenite containing labradorite and 

 green hornblende. In the interior a few miles distant 

 was to be seen a high elevation, broad and massive at the 

 base, but conical or nipple-shaped at the summit, and 

 rising perhaps 1,500 feet above the sea. 



As we entered, on a Saturday afternoon, the harbor 

 of Hopedale, which is situated at the head of a deep, 



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