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^ong. 57° 9' W., and includes Blanc Sablon and the 

 Woody Islands. The northern boundary is Cape Chud- 

 leigh, in lat. 60° 37' N., long. 65° W." Hatton and 

 Harvey then add : " Thus a line drawn due north and 

 south, from Blanc Sablon to Cape Chudleigh, constitutes 

 the boundary between the two jurisdictions." If the read- 

 er will draw the line on the map, he will see that it would 

 include only a thin strip of the coast from Blanc Sablon 

 to Davis's Inlet ; that it would not include the western 

 part of Melville Bay, and north of Davis's Inlet or the 

 Moravian settlement of Zoar, would pass almost to the 

 westward of the mainland, including only some of the 

 promontories and the outer islands from Zoar to Cape 

 Chidley. This was evidently not the intention of the 

 British Government. The natural boundary line between 

 Newfoundland and Canadian Labrador would be, it 

 seems to us, the Eskimo and Kenamou rivers, the 

 western shores of Melville Bay and of Grand Lake, 

 and north of this point the chain of lakes lying on the 

 height of land extending along near the 65th parallel 

 of longitude, the natural boundary line on Ungava 

 Bay being Whale River. 



Hatton and Harvey's history then states: "This por- 

 tion of Labrador was not always attached to Newfound- 

 land. The first annexation took place after the Treaty 

 of Paris, 1763. While the flag of France waved over 

 Canada, the French carried on extensive fisheries on 

 the Labrador coast, near the Straits of Belle Isle, to 

 which they attach the greatest importance. After the 

 conquest of Canada by Britain, a company established 

 in Quebec obtained a monopoly of these fisheries 

 which lasted for sixty years, but was brought to an 



