TO THE STARTING-POINT 



Champlain and other early explorers. The 

 name outard signifies bustard, a very different 

 bird, but, in the old French of Champlain and 

 the modern Acadian it is applied to the wild 

 goose. 



The Bay of Seven Islands is close to the 

 western limit of the Labrador Peninsula. On 

 modern maps one finds the name Labrador 

 printed on a narrow strip along the eastern 

 coast and the Straits of Belle Isle as far as 

 Blanc Sablon. This is the part of the peninsula 

 that belongs to Newfoundland. The northern 

 part of the great peninsula is labeled Un- 

 gava, and the southern part Saguenay County, 

 Quebec, but these are political divisions whose 

 boundaries are artificial and are even now 

 uncertain and under dispute. The great nat- 

 ural feature to which the term Labrador Pen- 

 insula belongs — an area according to Low of 

 some 511,000 square miles — has certain boun- 

 daries that are easily comprehended. On the 

 north lie Hudson Straits, on the east the At- 

 lantic Ocean, on the south the Straits of Belle 

 Isle and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and on the 

 west James Bay and Hudson Bay. At various 

 times the line marking off the neck of the pen- 

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