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even in the temporary sheds used for sheltering the 

 fishermen. Though the progress of the colony was 

 thus prevented and discouraged in every conceivable 

 manner, the sturdy pioneers held their ground, or 

 rather rocks, on the coast, and increased in numbers 

 until in 1813. 



THE DAWN APPEARED. 



The foolish, cruel and selfish laws were relaxed, and 

 grants of land to settlers were for the first time per- 

 mitted. Agriculture, on a small scale, immediately 

 began in close proximity to each settlement. The 

 settlers found in a short time that the argument used 

 by those who were interested in keeping the country- 

 unsettled, that the climate and soil were wholly un- 

 suited to agriculture, was a malicious falsehood manu- 

 factured out of the Avhole cloth. 



ROAD MAKING BEGINS. 



It was soon found that little progress could be 

 made in the cultivation of the soil until roads were 

 constructed. The year 1825 was made memorable by 

 the building of the first road, nine miles in length, 

 from St. John's to Portugal Cove, on the southern 

 shore of Conception Bay. On the opposite shore of 

 this bay were the thriving towns of Harbour Grace, 



