204 i)ii;ECTir).\s roi; tourists. 



90 luik's ill leiigtli ami o.") miles wide at its moutli, is next 

 reaclie(l. It contains clusters n\' isL^inl-, one of tlieni, (4reat 

 Merasheeu Island, lieing 21 miles long. The scenerv of this hay 

 is very tine. Tlie steamer makes four calls here — at Placentia, 

 St. Lawrence, Lanialine and IJurin. Burin is a very prosperous 

 place, having extensive fisheries and a lai'ge trade with St. Pierre 

 Its land-locked harhour is one of the finest in the island. Fortune 

 Bay is next reached, noteil for its fine herring fishery and is a 

 great resort for American fishing ves.-els. Tlie French Islands of 

 St. Piei're and Micpielon are visilde, in tlie month of the Bay, 

 Fortune, Grand I'ank, Belleoram, St. Jacques, Harliour Briton 

 are touched at in succession. The scenery of Bay D'Espoir 

 (corrupted into Bay Despair') and of Hermitage Bay, arms of 

 Fortune Bay, is pronounced hy many travellers to be the nu)st 

 magnificent in the island. Burin, Harliour Briton, Burgeo ami 

 Rose Blanche are most picturesipie in situation. Artists will 

 lieie find the most striking materials on which to work, and 

 might spend here with 2)rofit many weeks studying nature's 

 varied forms. 



lOKTlINK TO CAPE KAV. 



From Fortune Bay tliere is a straight line of coast 100 miles- 

 in length, terminating at Cape Bay. It is indented with num- 

 bers of small bays and harbours, the most important being 

 La Poile and Rose Blanclie Bays. Numerous clusters of islaiul'^ 

 are seen in passing, such as the Penguin Islands and the Burgeo 

 Islands. From the largest of the latter Captain James Cook, the 

 celebrated naAngator, observed an eclipse of the sun in 1765. 

 Ptnl-au-Basfpie, a s})lendid harliour, deep, and perfectly shel- 

 tered, is destined to be a place of gieat importance as the western 

 terminus of the trans-insular i-aihvay now in course of construc- 

 tion. Close to it is (Channel, a thriving place, with a ]io}mlation 

 of 723. 



CAPE KAY TO POUT-AU-POKT. 



Rounding Cape Ray (105 inhabitants) the steamer now i^asses 

 along what is 2)opularly known as the French Shore. Opposite" 

 Cape Ray, on the Cape Breton shore, is Cape North, the two 



