2IO A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



a trader in furs, of which he had two or three hundred 

 dollars' worth on hand, and he professed to have more 

 than he wanted to live on. This little trip gave me 

 some idea of the country inland, as Thomas's Bay is 

 thirty miles deep, forming a broad sound, with few is- 

 lands except at the mouth. Both sides of the bay are 

 thickly wooded, with mountain summits rising bare and 

 gray through the covering of dark green coniferous trees, 

 the birches or poplars not being abundant enough to en- 

 liven the sombre hues of an evergreen Labrador forest. 

 The contours of the ridges and hills were regular, the 

 country was rather low, the scenery on the whole monot- 

 onous ; and such, I conceive, are the features of the in- 

 terior of the Labrador plateau, though diversified with 

 lakes and deep river valleys. Both sides of the bay 

 were terraced : on the north side were three long and 

 regular terraces ; those on the south side were less regu- 

 lar and much shorter ; one formed a point of land per- 

 haps a hundred feet high and. descending into the water 

 by three terraces. Farther up, the slope of the hill was 

 payed with large sea- worn bowlders, for the most part 

 covered over and hidden by the vegetation. At the 

 mouth of the bay are also three naked terraces, the 

 longer one winding up, following the shore, a growth of 

 trees partially concealing it from sight. The return row 

 down the bay and the sunset effects were extremely fine. 

 I cannot attempt to describe them. How the scenery 

 at this point appeared to a better artist in words than 

 myself may be realized by the following extract from 

 one of Rev. Mr. Wasson's papers in the Atlantic 

 Monthly of May, 1865 : 



" In the early afternoon a dense haze filled the sky. 



