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and at Pictou on Prince Edward's island,* so that we 

 shall reach Eastport sometime in the first week of 

 September. How much I have improved by my op- 

 portunities, must be left td your judgement, when 

 we meet, as I hope we shall, some six weeks hence. 

 We have not found Labrador, the country that the 

 fishermen would have us believe. I expected to have 

 obtained many curious specimens in comparative 

 anatomy, but we have seen no quadruped larger 

 than a rat. We have found no new plants, though 

 we have looked closely over all the ground. Birds 

 are much less plenty than we had been taught to 

 expect them. Mr. Audubon has obtained much 

 valuable information, and we all are glad that we 

 have seen this country, for no description can con- 

 vey a just idea of it. Labrador was not made for 

 white men, and it is to be wished that it had been 

 left in the possession of those whom God placed 

 there. We have travelled over the country very 

 thoroughly, and can bid adieu to Labrador without 

 regret. If I was to come here again, I should wish to 

 spend here the winter and the spring, as the quad- 

 rupeds of the country, such as reindeer, bears, foxes, 

 hares, are to be seen only in this season. In the 

 summer they retire into the interior, no one knows 

 where. We have heard one bear, but could not ob- 

 tain a sight of him, though we sought his acquaint- 

 ance eagerly. Mosquitoes, and gnats are in greater 

 abundance than any thing else. 



I have written to Dr. Mussey ^ an account of what 

 I have seen, but have not descended to particulars 



' Pictou is in Nova Scotia. 

 ' Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey. 



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