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of New York, whose docks are taking so high a place for 

 their applicability to cold climates. This enterprise is the 

 work of the local Government, on whose account it is 

 being constructed. 



Newfoundland has hitherto been little more than a geo- 

 graphical expression to most people in this country, but 

 we may now hope for a change in this respect, in the 

 interests of truth, and for that correct understanding the 

 people of this country would naturally wish for regarding 

 the oldest of the dependencies of the Crown. The repre- 

 sentation of the colony at the Exhibition must have tended 

 to this result, and have established the claims of New- 

 foundland, commercially and otherwise, to distinctive and 

 intelligent appreciation. 



I would here state that the leading object of this great 

 enterprise — to place a fuller and cheaper supply of fish 

 within reach of the people of this country — cannot be more 

 effectively advanced than by bringing Newfoundland within 

 the limits of the sources frorrt which supplies are drawn. 

 The dried codfish of the colony has been adjudged the 

 first place, for all samples exhibited, and gold medals 

 have been accordingly awarded to them all. Its excellence 

 therefore cannot be questioned, and with good cooking few 

 dishes are more acceptable. The average price of fresh 

 cod to the consumer in this country is about sixpence per 

 pound ; and as it requires two pounds and three-quarters 

 of fresh fsh to make a pound of dried fish, the relative 

 value of the latter would be about sixteen-pcnce per pound. 

 In the process of cure no appreciable portion of the 

 valuable properties of the fish is removed ; and when I 

 can state that this dried fish can be supplied for a fourth of 

 its clear relative value as compared with fresh fish, as here 

 stated, a case is placed before the people of this country 



