EST AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



occasionally a yellow-bellied flycatcher ejacu- 

 lated je-let, and a pipit on the Arctic borders 

 of this Hudsonian island weJked about and 

 wagged his tail. Doubtless a ruby-crowned 

 kinglet, as in Audubon's time, was concealed 

 in the thicket, but he was silent; his season of 

 wonderful song had passed. Above this val- 

 ley was another lake and another summit be- 

 yond. From here there was an extensive view 

 over a desolate region, or, in Audubon's words, 

 "nothing but rocks — barren rocks — wild as 

 the wildest of the Apennines everywhere." 

 Rocky hills, lakes in islands, and islands in 

 lakes. The red line of rock surface at the 

 water's edge showed the salt-water inlet; the 

 lichens and green plants extending to the 

 water's edge showed the fresh-water lakes; 

 otherwise they could not be distinguished. 



Within fifty or seventy-five feet of the sum- 

 mit boulders, large and small, were lying about 

 where they were left by the receding ice of 

 the last glacial period; below that there were 

 no poised boulders to be seen, they had all 

 been washed into hollows by the waves during 

 the period of submersion. The line between 

 the two regions was sharply drawn. Profes- 

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