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over tliL' AlliUitii- arc lumlitird Ik-Ioi'c rcadiiii'^ llic wc-t coast. 

 Now, that it is ojh'Ui'iI up li\' tlir railway, il seems destiueil in 

 tilt' near future tn lieiinni. the ^eat ol' a lar^'e agrieultural iiidus- 

 trv. To tlii.> will he aihleil cattle ami slice] i-iviisiuj;- on an ex- 

 tensive scale, as well a> iiiiniiiL;' ainl luiiiheriu!.;', to .-ay nothinj^' ot" 

 tisliing. The coal heils will not remain much l()ii;j;er umvorked 

 when the lailway louclu's them, 'i'his yraml desideratum is at 

 length seeureil, and western Xewt'oiindland hecomes accessible 

 from lioth east and west, and ]iresent< a w ide tlidd for enteri)rise. 

 It is of inijioi iani-c, thend'on', to ascertain what is the idiarai'tei' 

 of its soil and wliat aie its gx.neral capahilitio. 



TIU: t ODltOV V.VI.LKYS THlilll COXl'ItiVU.VTrOX. 



Western Newfoundlaiiil, hecimiiiiL; at l*oit-aux-l>as(pie, com- 

 prises the ("odroy \'alleys, St. George's Bay, I'ori-a-Port, Bay of 

 Islands, Bonne Bay, and the coast of the great northern ]ieninsula 

 to the Straits of Belle Isle, — some four humlred miles in extent. 

 The (ii-eat and Little ( 'odroy ]!i\-eis, which ha\e hut short courses, 

 fall into the sea ahout sixteen miles north of ('a])e IJay and .-ix 

 miles south-easterly from ( 'ape Anguille. Theii- mouths are but 

 a few miles a]iarl. The valley which they drain, ihough of no 

 great (.■xtent coui]iarati\ cd\', is one of the liiiot aui-icidtural dis- 

 tricts in the island, il is hounded on the iioitli-east hy the Cape 

 Bay mountains, rising, rugged and barren, to a height of :^,000 

 feet. The Cape Anguille i-mge forms its northern boundai-y ; 

 " these,'' says the (icological re]iorl, ''present a soft and gentle 

 outline, while the higher idevations attain an altitmh' of 1,000 to- 

 1,200 feet, richly coverel hy forest trees nearlv to the summits." 

 The lowei ]iarl of this valley, between the two langes of hills, 

 gives an ex|ianse ol law Hat land, the breadtli of tln' \alley being 

 about tweh'e miles. Ill the upper jiart of the valley the hill- 

 ranges converge towanls each other, and ••the xalley gradually 

 becomes more and more contracted in widih until shut in nearly 

 altogether where the main stream at the end ol' the siiiA'cy be- 

 comes split up among the mountains of the Long Bangc into a 

 succession of small tuibulent mountain lirooks.'' 



