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FIG. 12- TOWERING UPWARD BEHIND THE FOREST 



FIG. 13. A VIEW OF KITTY'S BROOK 



what struggling and accidental service. It 

 was a bold undertaking creditably com- 

 pleted. 



As the train moved out from Port-au- 

 Basques it crossed a wide alluvial plain, 

 with the steep wall^of the Long Range 

 Mountains (elevation 

 seldom exceeding 

 2,000 feet) on the east, 

 and the crescent 

 waves under the 

 whip of a cold wind 

 rolling in over a wide 

 marge of sand on the 

 west. The sea was 

 slowly left behind us, 

 disappearing behind 

 intervening prom- 

 inences, and soon we 

 were compelled, by the charm and beauty 

 of the rounded, interlocked and sculptured 

 hills to watch the rapidly changing picture 

 on the east , where we saw the developing valley 

 of the Little Codrov River. We saw its cat- 



FIG. 15. DRIFT BOULDERS 



tered settlements (some of them most fragile 

 and extemporized shelters), its intervale of 

 meadows and upland leading our inspection 

 to the crowding woodland of balsam and 

 spruce at the roots of the rampart of hills, 

 where for a little space it struggled up the 



declivities, and sensi- 

 bly mingled its dis- 

 couraged edges with 

 the bare summits of 

 the whale-backed, in- 

 tersected and notched 

 archaean plateau. 

 (Fig. 2.) 



The best stopping 

 place in this section, 

 if accessibility to the 

 mountains is con- 

 sidered desirable, is 

 at the Tompkins farmhouse and hostelry. 

 There are guides, every convenience for 

 reaching the salmon-pools, and the inesti- 

 mable advantage of having the Long Range 

 within reach,which for study, collecting and 



FIG. 17. STEAMSHIP " CLYDE " AT LEWISPORT 



FIG. I». A YOUNG ICEBERG 



