Labrador is an immense region on the continent, where the coast (except for the deep inlet of Melville Lake) soon rises into an elevated plateau 2000 feet in height, which is strewn with almost uncountable lakes, out of which rivers flow north, south, east, and west.

On the north-east corner of Labrador there are mountains from 3000 to 4000 feet, overlooking the sea.

The whole of this vast Labrador or Ungava Peninsula, which is bounded on the south by the River and Gulf of St.Lawrence, and on the north by Hudson's Bay and Hudson's Straits, is an inhospitable land, at no time with much population.
"The winter of Labrador is long and severe; one would need to have blood like brandy, a skin of brass, and an eye of glass not to suffer from the rigours of a Labrador winter.

In the summer the frequent fogs render the air damp, and the constant breezes from the immense fields of ice floating in the gulf keep the land very cool, and make any alteration in the winter dress almost unnecessary" (James M'Kenzie).
Labrador and the lands farther north on the continent of North America are separated from Greenland on the east by the broad straits--a great branch of the Atlantic--named after Davis and Baffin, who first explored them.

Passing up Davis Strait, along the coast of Labrador to beyond 60 deg.