IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



is less easily worn down by the rain and the 

 frost, but on the shores where the waves bat- 

 ter they are cut away and form chasms like 

 the well-known Rafe's Chasm at Gloucester. 

 In Labrador these dikes have recently risen 

 from the sea and are, therefore, cut below the 

 level of the surrounding granitic rock. I have 

 seen similar but larger dikes on the eastern 

 Labrador coast which suggest from a distance 

 cuttings for roads across the country. 



In sailing out of the inlet we startled a female 

 red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake, with a 

 brood of young. The ducklings at once hid 

 themselves among the rocks on shore while 

 the mother flew away. It was good policy for 

 both parent and offspring, but very different 

 from the actions of a brood of the same species 

 that I had surprised in a different way the 

 day before. I emerged from the woods on the 

 shore of a lakelike expansion of the inlet and 

 perceived a mother merganser with a dozen 

 downy young a little over a gunshot away. 

 The mother saw me at once and swam a short 

 distance, nervously thrusting out her head; 

 then dived and came up outside, enticing her 

 brood to follow, which they did, swimming 



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