KG 547 HARVARD Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. and seal-oil-the annual amount being estimated at fully £600,000 sterling. The climate, like that of North America generally, is subject to great vicissi tudes. In summer, the thermometer ranges as high as 85° Fahr.; in winter, the temperature, and that in nearly the same latitudes as the British Isles, falls 30° below the freezing-point. L. is a dependency of the United Kingdom, but it has never had a separate government of its own, being considered sometimes as an appendage of Canada, and sometimes as an appendage of Newfoundland. It is present in the latter position. variety of Felspar (q. v.), common as a constituent LA'BRADORITE, or LABRADOR STONE, a of dolerite, greenstone, the gabbro, and hypersthene rocks. It consists of about 53 per cent. of silica, and 29 alumina, with 12 lime, and a little soda and other articles; taking a fine polish, and often peroxide of iron. It is cut into snuff-boxes and exhibiting rich colours, not unfrequently several in the same piece, when the light falls on it in LABRADO'R (Port. terra labarador, cultivable land'), the name given by certain Portuguese discoverers to the continental coast of America near Newfoundland; a name as inappropriate as that of Greenland! The name gradually came to be extended from the Strait of Belleisle to Hudson's Strait, being sometimes carried as far westward as the eastern shores of Hudson's Bay. More properly, however, L. embraces only such portions of that vast peninsula as do not fall within the chartered territories of the Hudson's Bay Company (q. v.), by pouring water into Hudson's Strait or Hudson's Bay. In this restricted sense, the country stretches in N. lat. from about 52° to about 60%, and in W. long. from about 55° to upwards of 65°; area, 70,000 square miles; pop. 5000. Of this extensive country the interior is little known; but is understood to be mostly an impenetrable wilderness of swamps and forests. The maritime border, how ever (although its shores are wild and precipitous, reaching a height of from 400 to 600 feet, and on the north from 1000 to 1500 feet), is not without its value. The sea is here far less subject particular directions; the general colour being to fogs than it is in the neighbourhood of New-missionaries in the island of St Paul, on the It was first discovered by the Moravian foundland, where the warm waters of the Florida Stream meet the cold currents from the north; and coast of Labrador. It has been found in meteoric as it is constantly supplied from the polar ice, its temperature is remarkably favourable both to the LA'BRIDE, a family of osseous fishes, ranked quantity and the quality of its fish. Of the entire by Cuvier in the order Acanthopterygii (q. v.), by population of L., 4000 are Esquimaux, who are Müller in his artificial order, Pharyngognathi (q. v.) settled on the gulfs and creeks of the coast, and who They are not far removed in structure from the higher subsist chiefly by fishing. Many European estab- or perch-like families, but present variety in the struclishments also have sprung up on the coast, some ture of the fins and jaws. The dentition is especially of them, such as the Moravian settlements, blending adapted for crushing hard bodies and vegetable commercial pursuits with missionary labours. The stems. They are generally oval or oblong, an principal missionary stations are Nain (founded more or less compressed, with a single dorsal fin, 1771), Okak (1776), Hebron (1830), and Hopenthal (1782). The fisheries employ, in the season, nearly 1000 decked vessels, belonging partly to the British Provinces, principally Newfoundland, and partly to the United States. Besides a few furs and feathers, the exports consist of cod and salmon, with cod-oil stones. spinous in front, and the jaws covered by fleshy lips. Their colours are generally brilliant. They abound chiefly in tropical seas, but twelve or thirteen species are found on the British coasts, none of them large, nor esteemed for food. The most valuable of the family is the Tautog (q. v.) of North |