29 



Newfoundland great importance and value of the cod-fishery, 6-ii 

 ., importance of the seal-fishery, S-ii 



,, its history as a colony, 3-6 



. ,, lobster and salmon fisheries in the colony, 13 



,, necessity for extended employment, and means for this 



purpose, 16-22 

 ,, population and revenue of, 15, 16 



,, the resources of the colony and staple character of the 



commerce, 14, 15 

 ,, total annual value of the fisheries, 13, 14 



Oil, excellence of Newfoundland cod-liver oil, 21 

 ,, produced from the fat of the seal, 9, 10 

 ,, superiority of the fish oils from the colony, 21 



Population of the colony, 15 



Railway, construction of a, and its satisfactory results, 18, 19 

 Revenue, how derived and expended, 15, 16 



Salmon, curious local legal decision respecting, 12 



,, fine fishery at Labrador, 13 

 Seals, numbers caught in various years, 8, 9 



,, oil produced from, 9, lO 



,, fishers, number employed, and mode of payment, 10, li 



,, fishery, the, its importance and value, 8-1 1 



Vessels employed in the seal fishery, 8-10 



,, number employed in the cod-fishery in 157S. .4 



