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General Wotes. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
AN EXPEDITION TO LABRADOR. 
Some scientists and explorers have devoted considerable time and 
attention to the exploration of certain sections of Labrador, notably 
Prof. Packard, Mr. Stearns, Prof. Lee, Henry G. Bryant and Mr. A. 
P. Low, of the Dominion Geological Survey. 
The reports and writings of these men interested me so deeply that 
I resolved to devote a summer to exploring in Labrador, and so I 
organized a small party last June; with the intention of visiting the 
interior table-lands of the peninsula by way of Hamilton or Grand 
River, already explored by Mr. Bryant to the Grand Falls. The 
party, besides myself, consisted of Mr. Howard Bucknell, ornithologist ; 
Mr. G: H. Perkins, geographer, and Mr. G. M. Coates, botanist. 
We got together a complete canip outfit, two Rushton canoes for use 
on the rivers, a set of surveying instruments, collecting materials, etc., 
and thus equipped we took passage with “ Dr. Cook’s Arctic Expedi- 
tion of 1894,” on the steamship Miranda, since famous on account of 
the numerous accidents which befell’ it; and its final abandonment in 
Arctic seas. 
We left New York on July 7th last, and enjoyed a pleasant voyage 
to North Sydney, Cape Breton, where we stopped to take in a supply 
of coal. Here we visited the copper mines and the great coal mines, 
which extend for miles beneath the sea. From Sydney we went on to 
St. Johns, N. F.; where we stopped for a few hours in order to repair 
one of our compasses. . Two days after leaving St. Johns, a quarter 
after eight o’clock on the morning of July 17th, the steamer, being 
surrounded by a heavy fog, collided with an iceberg. Great commo- 
tion arose among the passengers, which, however, quickly abated, 
for it was discovered that no serious damage had been inflicted: It 
was decided to put into Cape Charles, on the southern coast of Labra- 
dor, for repairs. Here we remained for several days, and devoted our- 
selves to making collections of the flora and fauna of this section. The 
country about Cape Charles is composed of low hills formed of granite, 
syenite and hornblende. The student of geology will find here trap- 
dykes and veins of various kinds, also remarkable examples of anti- 
clinal and synclinal strata exhibited on the eroded surfaces of the 
