2l6 A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



fishermen, who had never seen them before this summer, 

 said that the cod fed on them, and injured the fishery, 

 but all this was the merest nonsense. We lay to among 

 the icebergs all night, Bradford vigorously and indefat- 

 igably at work every spare moment, up at three o'clock 

 in the morning, and painting the next day until a fog 

 closed down upon the scene early in the afternoon. 



The succeeding day (the 8th) we ran into Sloop Har- 

 bor, where we dredged in ten fathoms and drew up an 

 interesting arctic Isopod crustacean. 



On the 9th we entered Indian Harbor, where lived 

 a Mr. Norman, who was carrying on an extensive fishery 

 here, though this year it was, as everywhere else, a 

 failure, the men at Sloop Harbor having to go thirty 

 miles for bait. The salmon fishery was also pronounced 

 equally abortive, only two hundred tierces having been 

 netted in all Hamilton Inlet, whereas that amount is 

 usually taken at a single point. 



The scenery here — trap-hills and dykes giving some 

 strange effects — was unusually picturesque, and Bradford 

 was busy making studies and photographs. The gneiss 

 is whitish in color, gradually sloping in rocky terraces to 

 the shore, and extending under the fiord, the bowlder- 

 laden, smooth bottom being perfectlv visible at the 

 depth of six or eight fathoms ; and I have little doubt it 

 could have been distinguished at the depth of ten or 

 even fifteen fathoms. 



Here for the first time on this coast were to be seen 

 undoubted glacial marks. They occurred on the smooth 

 ice-worn rocks about twenty-five feet above the harbor, 

 not far from Norman's house, on the southern side of 

 the tickle. They were lunate impressions varving in 



