EST AUDUBON'S lABEADOR 



seemed to be common on the coast. His is 

 the only house in Juliet Harbor, and a fine 

 harbor it is, big enough to float a fleet of fish- 

 ing-vessels. To the north lay the encircling 

 hills and through a rift flowed a stream whose 

 falls looked white as snow in the dark forest. 



As we advanced, the hills rose to a height 

 of seven hundred feet a short distance from 

 the shore, and were broken and faulted from 

 north to south in such a way as to display ver- 

 tical faces to the west. In the shelter so formed 

 the trees have grown to a considerable size, 

 and patches of light-green birch showed con- 

 spicuously amongst the dark spruces. The red 

 of rocky cliffs and the gray-and-white lichens 

 on the exposed hillsides contrasted well with 

 these greens. 



Near at hand a long yellow sand beach 

 fringed with white breakers and backed with 

 pale-green strand wheat skirted a shore that 

 was broken by the mouth of the Netagamon 

 River. The falls, some fifty feet high, whose 

 spray rose like smoke in the black forest, in- 

 vitingly called us, but we needed to tcike ad- 

 vantage of the freshening breeze and we contin- 

 ued on our way only to fall into the doldrums 

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