THE HAMILTON RIVER AND THE GRAND FALLS 143 
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 
