472 Notes on the Labrador Eskimo [May, 
Chateau bay, opposite Belle Isle, in 1765, while others were known 
to have extended as far east as the Mingan islands, that this race 
had a more or less permanent foothold on the northern shores of 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. If this was so, it seems not im- 
probable but that this roving race may have made, in very 
early times, expeditions farther south to Nova Scotia and New 
England. Here also comes to mind the theory of Dr. C. C. 
Abbot, that the Eskimo formerly inhabited the coast of New 
Jersey during the river terrace epoch. 
Although at first disposed to reject such an assumption, the 
examination we have made leads us to look with more favor 
upon Dr. Abbot’s theory, and to think it not improbable that 
long after the close of the glacial period, z. e., after the ice had 
disappeared and during the terrace epoch, wien the reindeer 
and walrus lived as far south as New Jersey, that the Eskimo, 
now considered so primitive a race, perhaps the remnants of 
the Palzolithic people of Europe, formerly extended as far as 
a region defined by the edge of the great moraine; and as 
the climate assumed its present features, moved northward. 
They were also possibly pushed northwards by the Indians, 
who may have exterminated them from the coast south of the 
mouth of the St. Lawrence, the race becoming acclimated to 
the arctic regions. All these hypotheses came up afresh in our 
mind last summer when we began to collect these notes. Their 
substantiality became more pronounced after reading the confirma- 
tory remarks made by Professor E. B. Tylor at the Montreal 
meeting of the British Association. We are not now, however, 
prepared to adopt the view that the Norsemen did not go as far 
south as Narragansett bay, and that the natives they saw were 
not red Indians, their word “skralings” being indiscriminately 
applied to any of the native tribes they saw. Two voyages from 
Labrador to New England, not far possibly from the route taken 
by the Norsemen, lead us to think that their vessels, with fair 
winds, actually did sail a thousand miles to Cape Cod from South- 
ern Labrador or Newfoundland in nine or ten days. We have 
made the trip from Cape Cod to the Gut of Canso in about two 
days, the time given in the Norsemen sagas; but we do not in- 
tend at this time to touch upon this attractive subject. 
We do find, however, unexpected confirmation of Professor 
2 aS Tylor’s supposition that “ Eskimos eight hundred years ago, be- 
