224 A summer's cruise TO NORTHERN LABRADOR. 



ing like a flock of sea-birds towards the Gut of Canso. 

 About ten o'clock in the forenoon we lost sight of 

 Deadman's Island, the southernmost point of the Mag- 

 dalens, and at two o'clock in the afternoon sighted the 

 Prince Edward's Islands, and soon after espied Cape 

 Breton Island. 



We expected to reach Port Mulgrave earl)'^ the next 

 morning, but our hopes of letters, papers, fresh potatoes, 

 and beef on the morrow were dashed to the ground, as 

 soon after sunset we were becalmed and had to come to 

 anchor within six miles of that delectable haven. We 

 got into Port Mulgrave the next morning, when six of 

 our passengers left to return home overland. 



We left Port Mulgrave on the morning of the ist 

 September, passed Halifax light at eight o'clock in the 

 next evening, and at half-past seven in the evening of 

 the 3d sighted Thatcher Island light, and ran up to our 

 pier at Boston the next morning. 



A few words as to the scientific results of our voyage. 

 Although we failed to reach Cape Chidley and to see the 

 higher Moravian mission stations and Eskimos, or to do 

 much dredging in water over fifty fathoms in depth, yet 

 every possible facility was afforded me by Mr. Bradford, 

 and the results of the voyage were perhaps of some service 

 to science. Our geological notes of the coast were 

 fuller than any yet published ; over seventy-five raised 

 beaches were discovered ; glacial phenomena of interest 

 were observed, and the fact of the recent glaciation of 

 the northeastern part of the Labrador peninsula was 

 for the first time proved. Dredgings were made among 

 the islands from Mecatina to Hopedale, and a consider- 

 able number of new species of marine invertebrates, as 



