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Show LAND OF ICEBERGS. It Is the Icebergs that make 1brador fascinating-. They greet you when you steam out of the Strait of Belle Isle, the northern gateway of the Outf of 8t. Lawrence, and head northward up the coast of Labrador. They come floating from the north, an endless proceaaion. all shapes, fantastic, colossal, statuesque, statues-que, even grotesque a raagnifleant assemblage as-semblage of crystal domes and turrets and marble fortresses. Tour steamer picks Its way carefully among them lest they be Jealous of her Intrusion and fall over upon her. And In the midst of this glorious company you come to Battle Harbor. The settlement is on sn Island perhaps per-haps 200 yards In diameter, which Is the outpost of a" larger Island, and ploys the waves of the ocean like the prow of some gigantic ocean liner. In storms the spray leaps almost across Its ledgy surface. sur-face. A cove hides behind the bluff sea wall, and on Its rim nestles a tiny village vil-lage of whitewashed cottages. You climb the hill to the lookout. Away to the north and south spreads out the vast procession of the Icebergs. Thay come out of the north, the fog surrounding their tops and streaming like smoke from their pinnacles. They move slowly southward, south-ward, perhaps three of four miles a day. Some go directly south down the Newfoundland New-foundland coast, some turn west as they approach the strafts and are swept by the tide Into the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence. Pay by day from the hilltop you note their slow progress. Each day sees new forms emerging on the northern horlxon. while old. familiar bulks are lost to view I In the south. Each month's Icebergs are I natives of a more northern region. Hence the bergs of the late summer, though fewer In number, are Individually larger than those of the early part of the sea-eon, sea-eon, because they have been longer In the making, coming from further north. .June s Icebergs are Labrador's own product, and have broken off from the ire field that has Allied the bays snd extended far into the ocean In the previous pre-vious winter. July's bergs come from Baffin l,and. while the huge bulks of August are natives of Kane Bay and the far northern rim of Greenland, where man has never been. Bonton Transcript. |