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The former is much the larger, and drains an extensive area 

 of the highlands to the southwest. It is very rapid and 

 practically unnavigable. Above Northwest River the inlet 

 has been silted up by sand brought down and deposited 

 there by the Hamilton River, which flows into the head 

 of the inlet. A long, narrow point stretching out from the 

 north shore just above the Northwest River divides the 

 shallows from the deeper portion of the inlet; the upper 

 part is called Goose Bay, and extends twenty miles to its 

 head, which receives a small river, famous for the large 

 brook trout taken about its mouth in the autumn months. 

 There is here a large lumber mill belonging to the Grand 

 River Lumber Company. Their " loggers " penetrate far 

 into the country along the river valley. Besides their build- 

 ings, small log houses are scattered along the shores of the 

 inlet, wherever the ground is sufficiently level for a small 

 garden; these are the winter houses of the white people 

 who reside permanently on the Atlantic coast. They are 

 called " planters" or "livyeres," to distinguish them from 

 the summer fishing population from Newfoundland. The 

 planters are largely descendants of settlers brought out 

 from England for the salmon-fisheries. Some of their 

 ancestors were among the original settlers who came to 

 Sandwich Bay with Cartwright in 1770; others are de- 

 scended from servants of the Hudson's Bay Company. 

 They are all poor and hopelessly in debt, either to the 

 Hudson's Bay Company or to Newfoundland fishing firms, 

 so that these people have little hope or ambition to better 

 their condition. Their life is fairly happy and close to 

 nature. The sea supplies fish freely; their gardens, 

 potatoes. From the proceeds of their summer's cod-fishery 



