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capes sentinelling' the entiancc of tlie (lull' of St. L.iwivnci'. Fioni 

 Cape Kay to Cape Anguille (lie coast is singularly luggvilanil iu- 

 liospitable. The Great and Little Coilroy liivers discharge their 

 ■waters between these two jmints alter llowiiig thnnigh a fertile 

 valley oO nules in length. Tlie noble liay nf St. (leorge's Bay, 

 51(5 miles iVom St. John's, now oj)ens, having accoi'ding to the 

 Census of ISUl a })opulation of (),G32. Its fertile shores, as we 

 have already .seen, are ricli in forest and nnni'ral wealth. Tlie 

 steamer makes a short stay at Samly Point, then rounds the 

 2)eninsula of Port-au-Port famous for its fossils, and latterly for 

 its asbestos mines. The ])acking of lobsters is here carried on 

 extensively. Geologists come here to chisel the great cephalopods 

 out of its rocks. 



BAY OF ISLANDS. 

 Ninety-Jour miles farther north the Bay of Islands (population 

 1,500) is reached. As the name indicates it has numerous islands. 

 It has three great arnrs running twenty miles inland, one of 

 ■which I'eceives the Humber, the second largest river in the 

 island. The scenery of this bay is siioktu of by all travellers in 

 rapturous terms. A paper contributed by Mr. G. S. Benjamin 

 to the Century Ma(ja:dne, giving an account of hi.s trip to this 

 region, contains the folowing : — "The day was superli as if this 

 noble bay wished to ti.K a favoural)le impression upon the memoiy 

 of the voyagers who had come so far to see it. Blonudon soared 

 inaje.stically above us, the monarch of that mountain land, 

 crowned ^\'itll a wreath of roseate clouds, and the surrounding- 

 isles were suffused with the glow of a peaceful sunset. The 

 water of the Bay of Islands is as blue as that of the Mediterra- 

 nean. In this case it cannot Ije dTie to a larger ])roportion of salt 

 Avhich is the cause of the intense blue of the sea in warm climates, 

 so it must be attributed to the greater depth of the Newfound- 

 land Bay. As I gazed entranced at the lovely scene before nn; 

 I was able for the first time to realize, by the aid of the gohlen 

 haze veiling the long slopes and tumbling steeps the grandeur of 

 the sierras which enclosed the Bay of Islands. Tlie silence was 

 intensified by the silvery waterfalls dropping from crag to crag 



