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Title: Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition to Nachvak, Labrador, 1900
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Delabarre, Edmund Burke, b. 1863
Subjects: Scientific expeditions -- Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador Botany -- Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador Birds -- Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador Geology -- Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador Labrador (N.L.) -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Providence, R.I. : Preston & Rounds Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Page 71. The ship secured for the expedition was the "Brave" a forty-ton schooner owned by J. M. Butler of St. John's, Newfoundland. She had been entirely rebuilt, and was therefore new and clean, and well adapted to the needs of our small party. Her Captain was Abram Batten, of Barneed, Conception Bay
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K E. B. Delaharre, Ph. D. 129 promontories, presenting a much broken and indented coast-line; and of the sea, covered often with scattered bergs andice-floes, and dotted with the numerous islands. The interior is said to be well wooded and far from bar-ren, even almost to the northern extremity. But near the coast one rarely see trees of any notable size. At Hope-dale and Nain there are small groves near the missionstations; but elsewhere we met them only deep in the baysand in sheltered valleys a considerable distance—five or tenmiles at least—inland.* Thus, when not entirely lacking,they form an unobtrusive feature in the usual landscape.The low vegetation that predominates clothes the country with a close green mantle, but leaves its shape and natural outline unconcealed. Inorganic nature reveals herself in her own primeval character, leaving all the strength and charmand variety that she can assume naked to observation.There is little of softness, little of the attraction that vigo

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