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small Black-cap Green Flycatchers, Black-cap Warblers, 

 old and young, the last fully grown, a Fringilla lincolnii, 

 and a Pine Grosbeak. They saw many Gulls of various 

 species, and also an iceberg of immense size. There is 

 at Port Eau a large fishing establishment belonging to 

 fishermen who come annually from the Island of Jersey, 

 and have a large store with general supplies. Ere I go 

 to rest let me tell thee that it is now blowing a young 

 hurricane, and the prospect for to-morrow is a bad one. 

 A few moments ago the report of a cannon came to our 

 ears from the sea, and it is supposed that it was from 

 the " Gulnare. " I wish she was at our side and snugly 

 moored as we are. 



July 31. Another horrid hurricane, accompanied with 

 heavy rain. I could not go on with my drawing either in 

 the cabin or the hold, though everything was done that 

 could be thought of, to assist me in the attempt ; not a 

 thing to relate, as not one of us could go on shore. 



August 1. Bras d'Or, Coast of Labrador. ^ I have 

 drawn my Lestris pomarinus, but under difficulties ; the 

 weather has quite changed; instead of a hurricane from 

 the east, we have had one all day from the southwest, but 

 no rain. At noon we were visited by an iceberg, which 

 has been drifting within three miles of us, and is now 

 grounded at the entrance of the bay ; it looks like a large 

 man-of-war dressed in light green muslin, instead of can- 

 vas, and when the sun strikes it, it glitters with intense 

 brilliancy. When these transient monuments of the sea 

 happen to tumble or roll over, the fall is tremendous, and 

 the sound produced resembles that of loud, distant thun- 

 der; these icebergs are common here all summer, being 

 wafted south with every gale that blows ; as the winds are 

 usually easterly, the coast of Newfoundland is more free 

 from them than that of Labrador. I have determined to 



1 A small village on the coast of Labrador, latitude 51°; not the Bras 

 D'Or of Cape Breton Island. 



