\ PI EP \r 



\ Mr. Steven ap- 



r nothing of Newfoundland, I 



near as I can recollect, the foil. wing 



\ rfbundland is an island, 350 miles 



,, : ,1 -juD broad. It is the last land near the 



• the Atlantic, and about 1900 



tant from the nearest part of Ireland. It 



i m of 100,000, scattered along the 



6cn . iter part of whom arc engaged in 



population arc wholly English, 



Irish and Scotch, their descendants being the natives. 



half the population arc Roman Catholics. The 



other half at P I • comprising the following 



• E] iscopalians, 14.000 Mcth- 



i inalists, and oOO Presbyterians 



of tl i .; 1 Free Church of Scotland. It 



the British Crown in Ameriea, 



1 by Cabot on the "24th of June, 



1497. 1 k ha no interior settlements, and but few 



I or ten miles into the 

 interi r. A' i lily has from one to twenty 



act ling their dwelling, from which 



The land, however, is 



i is to be found in 



J of pine, larch, spruce, 



