4°4 



RECREATION 



FIG. 



THE LONG RANGE MOUNTAINS 



FIG. 4. IN THE LONG RANGE 



pictures. There was something homelike 

 and familiar, however, about the custom- 

 house officer, and our temporary discomfi- 

 ture changed to a 

 reasonable reaction of 

 pleasure at meeting a 

 transplanted Ameri- 

 can custom. The in- 

 spectors were politic, 

 affable and agreeably 

 considerate. There is 

 no desire, discover- 

 able or expressed, to 

 limit the breadth and 

 depth of the tide of 

 tourists. It is quite 

 clearly realized that 

 the tourist is a kind of 

 ambulatory Pactolus, whose approach is wel- 

 comed with expectations and his departure 

 marked by an improved bank account. 



FIG. 5. THE RAVAGES OF FIRE 



Port-au-Basques, besides being a port of 

 entry, is the western terminus of the Reid 

 Railroad, which runs northward to Bay of 



Islands, thence crosses 

 the island to Notre 

 Dame Bay, and then 

 passes southward to 

 St. John's, on the pen- 

 insula of Avalon, at 

 the southeastern ex- 

 tremity of the island. 

 Without enlarging on 

 it, it is quite plain 

 what immeasurable 

 benefits have been 

 bestowed upon the 

 widely-separated com - 

 munities along the 

 coast of Newfoundland by this railroad, 

 and it would poorly become the natural 

 gratitude of the traveler to recall its some- 



no. II. SIDING ON REID RAILROAD 



FIG. 6. LUXURIANT WATER HEMLOCK 



