CHAPTER XIY 

 SCENERY. 



ATTEACTIONS FOR TRAVELLEKS AND TOURISTS. 



Not many years liavi- elapsed since the disc'overy was nuule 

 by the outside world that Newfoundland contains some of the . 

 grandest and most picturesque scenerj- in all this beautiful Morld. 

 Formerly the idea of associating " the land of fog and codfisli " 

 with the sublime and beautiful in nature would have been scofl'ed' 

 at. All that was known about the island was summed up iu 

 Burns' lines in his " T\\a Dogs'" : — 



'' Some place far abroad 

 Where sailors gang to tisli for cod." 

 The prevalent idea was that it M-as mostly shrouded by a curtain 

 of fog, and that the interior -was a region of dismal swamps, grim 

 repulsive rocks and strips of land covered at intervals with a 

 stunted forest growth. Gradually, these mistaken ideas were 

 dispelled ; and now every year witnesses an increasing number 

 of visitors from the outside world — tourists in search of the 

 picturesque — travellers, explorers, health-seekers, sportsmen — 

 who carry back with them glowing reports of the wonderful 

 attractions of this "gem of the western world." Now that rail- 

 ways and steamships are affording easy access to its shores, fiords, 

 rivers and lakes, an increasing throng of sucli visitors, especially 

 from the United States and Canada, will find their way to this 

 newly-found land, to revel in its unique scenic beauties, and 

 drink in its health-giving breezes laden with the breath of ocean. 

 No traveller or tourist ever returns disappointed ; but on the 

 contrary they declare " the half lias not been told." 



LIKENESS TO NORAVAY. 



Newfoundland has well been named the "Norway of the New 

 AVorld." In many points it strikingly resembles that country 



