IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



Indians in 1852, used to sail close to the shore 

 in a schooner where now are rocks and sand- 

 bars, and but a few feet of water except at 

 the highest tides. Shifting sandbars of course 

 explain part but not all of this change of level. 

 The bones of a large whale were found near 

 where the church stands, in marine sand 

 twenty or thirty feet above the highest tides. 

 M. Beetz showed me the tooth of a sperm 

 whale that he had found as he stooped down 

 to drink on the shore of a small lake fifty miles 

 back in the bog. 



So much for this subject of land-levels and 

 salt marshes. It is a long digression but an 

 interesting subject, and it occupied much of 

 my thoughts as I walked along the shores 

 of the Little Natashquan. My eai-s and eyes 

 were open for the birds, however, and I heard 

 and saw many, but none new or of special 

 interest. The toads were still trilling their 

 spring song this fifth day of July. 



Arrived at the falls, I climbed to a high rock 

 and sat down in the refreshing breeze relieved 

 of the flies and mosquitoes. It is indeed a wild 

 country. To the east stretched a flat coastal 

 plain, as far as the eye could see clothed with 

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