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^00(1 as in the great American Nortli-We.st, without the distance 

 to travel, and with hospitality and friendly Englisli fellow-citizens 

 to welcome the sportsman. Wliat is wanted is just a little sun- 

 shine and countenance fi-om the Mother Country, to stir the 

 islanders themselves to develop Newfoundland for Xewfound- 

 landers. Life is easy yet not too easy. Nature affords a sutH- 

 ciency of opportunities without eueivating the population by 

 doing its ^\•ork herself. Travellers who have the courage to 

 penetrate the veil of fog and winter, and tlie more obstinate 

 barrier (jf discouraging presumption of perennial gloom, will 

 iliscover that life is well woilli living among Newfoundland 

 balsam jioplars ; and that the oldest English Colony has with 

 .age only deepened and intensified its English characteristics." 



After fourteen years, it is pleasant to know that the antici- 

 pations of the great Englisli journal have been iully veritieil. 

 Newfoundland, every year, attracts greater attention and the 

 stream of travellers di-awn to its shores is constantly swcdling. 

 The railways built and in course of construction will greatly in- 

 .crease among the <iutsidc world the desire to know more ot this 

 mis-known country, and to make acquaintance with its novel, 

 2">ictures([ne scenery. Its coast scenery is of course better known 

 than that of the interior. Many voyagers have seen, in passing, 

 its dark frowning clitfs, its miles on miles uf rocky walls, three 

 to four hundred feet in height, its l)old inomontories and head- 

 lamls, seulptui-ed into grim fantastic forms l)y the blows of At- 

 lantic billows — shapes massive and awe-inspiring in their stern 

 grandeur. These external lamparts engaged in ceaseless conffict 

 with the watery battalions which are ever rushing on them, are 

 apt at first sight to be repellant to the traveller. But \\ithin 

 these rockj'' outworks, up the great fiords, with their countless 

 branches, along the banks of the livers and brooks, among the 

 rolling hills and great barrens are scenes of rarest 1)eauty, and 

 over all a sky blue and serene as that of Italy and more 

 varied in its changing aspects. No element of nature's sub- 

 limity and beauty is wanting. In drives or rambles along 

 the shores of bays, the roads now scale the lofty hills, then dip 



