128 CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



FORT AMHERST. 



chain stretched across the Narrows, bolted into this 

 rock on one side, and raised or lowered as required 

 by a powerful capstan on the other side, precluded 

 the possible entrance of any hostile fleets. 



The Narrows or channel leading to the harbor is 

 nearly half a mile in length, and it is not until two- 

 thirds of it have been passed that the city of 30,000 

 inhabitants can be seen. At the end of the Narrows 

 the harbor trends suddenly to the west, thus com- 

 pletely shutting out the swell of the ocean. In ten 

 minutes after the bow is turned shoreward the steamer 

 is safely moored in a perfectly land-locked harbor. 

 Vessels of the largest tonnage can enter at all stages of 

 the tide, the rise of which does not exceed four feet. 



