IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



waves into hollows. Occasionally a boulder 

 is so firmly lodged in a cleft that it has not 

 rolled away or has been lying in a harbor 

 secure from thie waves, but boulders such as 

 these are rare. The captain said that he was 

 told by one of the early Acadians that in for- 

 mer days there was a French settlement at 

 this point, and that the great rock was rolled 

 up to this conspicuous place as a beacon. If 

 this tradition is true it explains to the geologist 

 the apparent paradox of a poised boulder on a 

 previously submerged coast, or, as the botan- 

 ist put it, "it lets the geologist out in great 

 shape." 



After leaving Gull Island we sailed by the 

 point of Cape Whittle and entered the pas- 

 sage which leads to the protected harbor of 

 Wapitagun. Audubon in his account of the 

 razor-billed auk gives a theatrical description 

 of the Ripley's entrance into the same harbor: 

 "Springing upon the deck, and turning his 

 quid rapidly from side to side, he called out, 

 'AH hands square the yards,' and whispered 

 to me, 'All's safe, my good sir.' The schooner 

 advanced towards the huge barrier, merrily 

 as a fair maiden to meet her beloved; now she 



