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np tlie liay is Heart's Delight, a small fishing village, having 

 430 iiiliahitants, now ianiuus as the scene of Mr. Joseph Hatton's 

 popular novel " Under the Great Seal." This accomplisheil 

 novelist has depicted in his exciting story the magnificent sce- 

 nery of Heart's Delight and Heart's Content, and the ways and 

 speech of the fisher-folk, with marvellous accuracy and touching 

 effect. All who wish to realise wliat Newfoundland was in the 

 days of the Fishing Admirals shouhl read this fine tale, rich in 

 pathos and dramatic eft'ects. 



CATALINA TO TWILLINGATE. 



The next call of thi steamer is made at Catalina (87 miles) — 

 i\ harbour of i-efuge at the north entrance of Trinity Bay — (o\'er 

 1,000 inhabitants). The name Catalina, like Kathleen in Irish, 

 is the musical Spanish term for Kate or St. Catherine, after 

 wlmm it is named. Bonavista Bay is now entered, having around 

 its shores a pojiulatiou of 17,849. Its largest town, (Bonavista), 

 (107 miles) lias a population of 3,550, l)eing a thriving phice. 

 Around the bay is much excellent land ; a large (juantity being 

 under culture. King's Cove (116 miles) is next touched at (popu- 

 lation 589). Then a call is made at Greenspond (148 miles) on 

 an island with fine fi.shing grounds around it, (population 1,317). 

 The steamer's course is then shaped for Fogo (815 inhabitants), a 

 liarbour on an island of the same name in Notre Dame Bay. 

 The j)ros2)erous town of Twillingate (French TouluKjnet) also on 

 an island, having a population of 3,585, is next reached, (distance 

 from St. .John's 232 miles.) 



THK MINING REGION. 



TJie vovagei' is now in the famous cojiper-miuiug region, 

 ('alls are ma<le at Exjiloits, Pilley's Island, (population 411), 

 noted i'or its splendiil iron-jiyrites mine (see chapter on Mineial 

 Besources), the ore being pronounceil the finest in the world for 

 the manufacture of sulphuric acid. Little Bay Island, Little 

 liay, Ni]iper's Harbour, BetL's Cove, Tilt Cove — 317 miles — 

 <1,004 inhaliitants). 



