A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador An Account Of The Exploration Of The Nascaupee And George Rivers By Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior
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It reminds me of an Egyptian pyramid.
Job is not feeling well this morning and it bothers me.
I asked
him if it were too many rapids. He smiled and said, 'I don't
know,' but as if he thought that might be the trouble.
"Later. - Just a little below our camp we found a river coming in
with a wild rush from the east. It was the largest we had yet seen
and we wondered if our reckoning could be so far out that this
might be the river not far from the post of which the Nascaupees
had told us. Then so anxious for the noon observation and so glad
to have a fine day for it. Result 57 degrees, 43 minutes, 28
seconds. That settled it, but all glad to be rapidly lessening the
distance between us and Ungava.
"After noon, more rapids and I got out above one of them to walk.
I climbed up the river wall to the high, sandy terrace above. This
great wall of packed boulders is one of the most characteristic
features of the lower river. It is thrown up by the action of ice
in the spring floods, and varies all the way from twenty feet at
its beginning to fifty and sixty feet farther down. One of the
remarkable things about it is that the largest boulders lie at the
top, some of them so huge as to weigh tons.
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