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to wliicli tourists now fiock IVoni all lands. Its doeji fiords, 

 ■wliicli indent the sliores everywhere, gnanled by lol'ty cliffs 

 whose forms are reflected in the clear Ijright waters of the hays, 

 have a reniarkalde resend)lance to tliose of Norway, and are often 

 not less magnificent in their scenery. Many of these great 

 watery ravines, running inland for eighty or ninety miles, and 

 Aixhiljiting a wonderful variety of scenery along the great arms 

 which they project in all directions; and in the islands which 

 stud their hosouis, are on a much grander scale than the fauKnrs 

 Norwegian fiords. The two great liays of Trinity and Placentia, 

 Avhich almost cut the island in two, have no parallel in respect 

 of size, among the fiords of Norway. Then, in their short hut 

 heantiful summers, their l)riglit skies, their exhilarating atmo- 

 sphere, their pojiulation (jf fisliermen, so aliundant in insular 

 peculiarities and primitive characteristics, hidden away in nooks 

 remote from all the outer world, quaint in manners, gracious to 

 strangers, the two countries resemble each other very strikingly. 

 Norway was once as little known as Newfoundland, and its 

 beauties as little appreciated. Now it is the resort, each suni- 

 luer, of many huudreils of travellers, and Ijy its fine system of 

 roads, it has l)e^'n rendered everywhere accessilde. The turn of 

 the Norway of the New Woi-Id lia> come at length. The artist 

 and the photographer have been at work ; and pictorial illustra- 

 tions of its scenery — about which there can be no deception — are 

 making it widely known, and thus the .stream of visitors is swel- 

 ling. Till Sir Walter Scott, in his 2)oetry and romances, raised 

 the curtain, and made known tlie marvellous beauties of the 

 Highlands of Scotland, who thouglit of penetrating those un- 

 known wilds I Now many thousands annually find piire and 

 elevated enjoyment and add to the happiness of their lives by 

 rambling among the romantic scenes of the Scottish Highlands. 



NEWFOUNDLAND AS A HKAI.TH KESOKT. 



To tlie millions of the United- States and Canada, in the near 

 future, Newfoundland will become what Norway and the High- 

 lands of Scotland now are to Eurojiean nations. In this sea-girt 



