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fishing establishments that yield or ought to yield a good profit to 

 their owners, but I sadly fear that industry is greatly crippled here 

 as in other places about the Labrador coast, by a feeling that says 

 let well enough (which is sometimes poor at best) alone, and hin- 

 ders any real progress either in wealth or desire for cultivating the 

 intellectual qualities. 



I have been struck with the really musical and pretty names which 

 appear all along the coast, and bear the marks of that society lan- 

 guage — the French. Belles Amours signifies something like loves 

 or passions of beautiful women, and undoubtedly took its name from 

 some conquest of love by or over some fair inhabitant of the place. 



We now descended to the famous Bradore bay, the " Brest" of 

 the early inhabitants when Cartier discovered the St. Lawrence, 

 when Cabot discovered Newfoundland, and when Corterel is said 

 to have discovered Labrador. The shape of this bay is very nearly 

 that of an acute angled triangle — the upper side, extending due 

 east by north, in an almost straight line for nearly seven miles ; the 

 other side (which I shall call the outer side) due north by slightly 

 west (the centre part bulging out giving to the whole side the appear- 

 ance of a bent bow with the end slightly recurved) for six miles ; 

 while the base, or a straight line from the extremity of Stony Point 

 its western, to the extremity of Grand Point its eastern, boundary, 

 the distance is eight miles. The only island of any account in 

 this large bay is called the Ledges Island and is about a mile wide 

 by a mile and a half long only. It is about a mile from shore near 

 the centre of the outer side, and, with a few scattering rocks, forms 

 a mass of dangerous shoals in this northeastern- end of the bay. 



The little island near the land on the extremity of the outer side, 

 and quite near Grand Point, is Paroquet (also spelled Peroquet) 

 Island. It is a very small island, a mere rock rather than island 

 scarcely half a mile in either direction, but small as it is it is as noted 

 perhaps in its way as any of the larger islands on the coast. As its 

 name would indicate, it is the abode of the paroquet or puffin, the 

 sea parrot as it is called, or the Fratercula arcticus of the or- 

 nithologists. On this small island thousands of these plump litde 



