24 CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



St. Mary's Bay is 25 miles wide at its mouth and 35 

 miles long, with two great arms, Salmonier and Col- 

 inet, both of which stretch still farther into the inte- 

 rior. Placentia Bay is 55 miles wide and 90 miles 

 long. Fortune Bay is 25 miles wide and 70 in length, 

 with numerous arms, the most important of which are 

 Bay D'Espoir, Hermitage Bay and Connaigre Bay. 



At the entrance of Fortune Bay are the two islands 

 of St. Pierre and Miquelon, ceded by treaty to France 

 for the shelter of her fishermen, and now all that re- 

 mains to France of the vast possessions she once held 

 in North America, and this she holds to the great 

 detriment of the Newfoundlanders. 



Around Bay St. George, which is 40 miles wide at 

 its mouth, with a good harbor at its head, are some of 

 the most fertile valleys on the island, with fine forests 

 of timber and coal-fields of large area. Bay of Islands 

 has three fine arms running 20 miles inland, and here 

 is located an extensive herring fishery. 



Notre Dame Bay is 50 miles wide at its mouth, and 

 runs inland 80 miles. On its shores are famous cop- 

 per mines which have been worked with marked suc- 

 cess, as well as the Pilley's Island Pyrites mine, which 

 is now being worked at a great profit to the syndicate 

 owning the plant. Pilley's Island is in the mouth of 

 Notre Dame Bay and the point from which an arm 



