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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At First I Thought It Was The River, But, When It
Became Clear That It Was Not, My Heart Sank A Little.
Had we been
wrong after all?
Had the river bent away to the north instead of
the south as we supposed?
Job and Gilbert outstripped us in the climb, and now we saw them
disappearing across a valley on our left in the direction of a high
hill farther south, and we followed them. As before, new heights
kept appearing as we went up, and when the real summit came in view
we could see Job and Gilbert sitting on its smooth and rounded top
looking away westward. How I wondered what they had found. When
we came up with them there, to the west, around the south end of
the opposite ridge, we could see the river flowing dark and deep as
before. Above, to the southwest, were two heavy falls, and at the
head of the upper and larger one the river widened. There were
several islands, and it looked as if we might be coming to the
expansions near the upper part of the river. One lake beside that
at the foot of the mountain would make the portage route an easy
and good one.
The view from the mountain top was magnificent in all directions.
To the north the hills lay east and west in low, regular ridges,
well covered with green woods; and thirty miles away, on a few of
the highest of them, were great patches of snow lying.
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