The Labrador Coast: A Journal of Two Summer Cruises to that RegionAlpheus Spring Packard traveled to Labrador on an expedition while he was a student at Williams College. He later wrote this book in the hopes it serves as a guide to people travelling to the Labrador Coast, adding information from other expeditions to that from his own journals. |
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... They consist in remains of walls and a grave , with a low stone enclosure round the tomb , cov- ered with a slab of the same material . They have been discovered ... they were a gigantic race , of great strength - were very fierce , and ...
... They consist in remains of walls and a grave , with a low stone enclosure round the tomb , cov- ered with a slab of the same material . They have been discovered ... they were a gigantic race , of great strength - were very fierce , and ...
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abundant American Anticosti arctic Audubon beaches Belle Isle Belles Amours bergs birds Blanc Sablon boat bowlders breeding Cape Chidley Caribou Island S. R. Château Bay Chimo coast of Labrador common Davis Inlet Domino dredged eggs Eskimo fathoms fauna feet high fiords fish fishermen fishery Fort Chimo glacial glaciers gneiss Greenland Gulf of St Hamilton Inlet height Henley Harbor hills Hopedale Weiz Hudson Bay Hudson Strait hundred feet Indians interior Island S. R. Butler July Koksoak River Labra Labrador coast lakes land Laurentian Lawrence Linn Mecatina miles Moose Factory Moravian Stations mountains mouth Nachvak Nain Newfoundland northern Nova Scotia Okkak peninsula polar rador region rocks sailed Salmon Bay seen shells shore side Southern Labrador species specimens Square Island Stearns Stimps Strait of Belle Strawberry Harbor summer syenite terraces Ungava Bay vessel voyage white bear Whole coast wind winter
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Page 128 - ... of his life. In 1775 he took part in the defence of Quebec against the Americans; and he served as a captain in the Royal Highland Emigrants during the later stages of the revolutionary war. He died at Malbaie, Lower Canada, on June 17, 1815. His journal of the siege of Quebec in 1759 is published in the Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec for 1868.
Page 40 - His serene majesty contemplates deriving great advantage from the country, not only on account of the timber of which he has occasion, but of the inhabitants, who are admirably calculated for labour, and are the best I have ever seen.
Page 236 - We have thought fit to constitute order and declare that there shall be a Governor and Commander-in-chief (hereinafter called our said Governor) in and over our Island of Newfoundland,. and the islands adjacent, and all the coast of Labrador,. from the entrance of Hudson's Straits to a line to be drawn due north and south from Anse Sablon on the said coast to the fifty-second degree of north latitude, and all the islands adjacent to that part of the said coast of Labrador...
Page 358 - ... because, as I suppose, it was that part whereof they had the first sight from sea. That island which lieth out before the land he called the Island of St John upon this occasion, as I thinke, because it was discovered upon the day of John the Baptist. The inhabitants of this island use to weare beasts' skinnes, and have them in as great estimation as we have our finest garments.
Page 359 - ... believer in this Norumbegua-like fable, as many a bold, credulous navigator had before him sailed to and fro, searching out the mystery of its location; but like the Golden City of Ingram, it was ever an elusive quest. Labrador appears upon this map across which is inscribed in Latin the legend, "This country was first discovered by Caspar Cortereal, a Portuguese, and he brought from there wild and barbarous men and white bears. There are to be found in it plenty of birds and fish. In the following...
Page 49 - Here, in place of odoriferous and fragrant smels of sweete gums, & pleasant notes of musicall birdes, which other Countreys in more temperate Zones do yeeld, wee tasted the most boisterous Boreal blasts mixt with snow and haile, in the moneths of June and July...
Page 43 - Whitsunmunday (following our voyage toward the land) we met her by the way, swimming toward land as swiftly as we could saile. So soone as we saw her, we pursued her with our boats, and by maine strength tooke her, whose flesh was as good to be eaten as the flesh of a calfe of two yeres olde.
Page 78 - On the loth of August, the curlews appeared in great numbers. On that day we saw a flock which may have been a mile long and nearly as broad; there must have been in that flock four or five thousand! The sum total of their notes sounded at times like the wind whistling through the ropes of a thousand-ton vessel; at others the sound seemed like the jingling of multitudes of sleighbells.
Page 485 - THE GREAT PROBABILITY OF A NORTH WEST PASSAGE : deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima, on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and to intercept some navigators from Boston, in New England, whom he met with, then in search of a North West passage. Proving the authenticity of the admiral's letter.