IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



The highest of these, 1264 feet in elevation, was 

 named Mount Cartier by Professor A. S. Pack- 

 ard in his visit to the coast in 1864. The fog 

 was continually blowing in and blotting oiit the 

 view. It might well have been here in Bradore 

 Bay that Sir Humphrey Gilbert in his voyage 

 of discovery in 1583 found himself befogged and 

 "surrounded by hideous rocks and mountains 

 bearing no trees and voide of any greene vege- 

 tation." 



Fog is the common condition here, and as the 

 mail steamer Meigle, on which I was to return 

 by way of Newfoundland, touches at Bradore 

 only in clear weather, it was very necessary, if I 

 wished to take no chances, to go on to Blanc 

 Sablon. In the absence of wind I descended to 

 the level of a motor-boat, in which with all my 

 luggage I set out for that harbor: — 



"When suddenly a grosse fog over sped 

 With his dull vapour all that desert has 



And heaven's cheerful face enveloped; 



That all things one, and one as nothing was, 



And his great universe seemed one confused mass." 



The effect of the "grosse fog" on the skipper of 

 the motor-boat was not such as is pictured in 

 the next stanza of Spenser's poem, where he 

 says, — 



