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iAe AiiR'i-icans will timl a welcome escape fruiu the burning heat 

 of their own siuuiiiers ; scenery novel and attractive ; and a 

 bracing exhilarating air that imparts new vigour to the frame 

 and sends back the smoke-dried denizens of the great cities with 

 the tide of health coursing through their veins, and life made in- 

 comparably better worth living. As a sanitarium — a pleasant 

 health-resort — Newfoundland is destined to take a high place, 

 when the accommodation and comforts which travellers or in- 

 valids re(|uire are provided — as unquestionably they will be — at 

 the most desiivable places, throughout the island. In fine sum- 

 mer days the heat is never oppressive, and nights are always cool, 

 so that after the day's ramble, sleep comes sweet and refreshing. 

 There is something peculiarly balmy, soothing and yet invigor- 

 ating, in the summer breezes, whether on sea or land, cooling the 

 fevered brain and smoothing the Mrinkled brow of care. After 

 a few weeks near the coast, inhaling the salt-sea breezes and ex- 

 posed to the life-giving sun's rays, the invalid who has come 

 with shattered nerves and fluttering pulse, returns with a new 

 supply of iron in his blood and a sense of well-being which 

 makes it a luxury to live. To escape from the sweltering sum- 

 mer heats of New York, Boston or Chicago, and after a jjleasant 

 sea-voyage, to breathe the jiure air of Terra Nova ; to climb its 

 rocky heights, or wander over its plains and " barrens" bright 

 with wild flowers ; to ply the angler's rod or bend the oar in the 

 clear \\ater of its countless lakes ; or to explore one of the great 

 fiords which stretch their arms far inland, amid the Avildest and 

 grandest scenery, — all this is like passing into a new and better 

 state of existence and enjoying for a time a purer and better life. 



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One thing the tourist may safely reckon on is the sensation of 

 novelty. Not only ai-e the aspects of nature, indeed the whole 

 character of the scenery, such as are not to be met with elsewhere, 

 but here the traveller finds himself among a " peculiar i)eople" 

 — the hardy fisher-folk, quaint in their manners, having their 

 own wavs of lookin" at tinners ; — unattected bv the fashions and 



