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bad harbour, exposed to the westerly winds; and when it blows from that direction, the fishermen are obliged to haul 11p their boats on the beach. "It is ten miles by a road across the peninsula to St J ohn’s; and a communication is kept up with the west side of the bay, by a packet, which plies between Portugal Cove and Harbour Grace.

Belle Isle, situated in Conception Bay, two or three miles from Portugal Cove, is about six miles long, and its soil is a fine rich black mould, Without rocks or stones.

Trinity Bay nearly separates the old province of Avalon from the rest of Newfoundland. It is about seventy miles deep, and from twenty to twenty—five miles broad. It contains a vast number of bays, harbours, and coves, several small islands, and one about twenty miles long on the west side, called Random Island. The names of the almost innume- rable places within this great bay would puzzle the most genuine root-catcher that ever existed. Trinity Harbour is the principal settlement.

Bonavista Bay, so named by Cabot, next to, and north west of, Trinity, is upwards of forty miles broad, about the same depth, full of bays and inlets, and aboundng in rocks and islands. It has some valuable fishing establishments.

West of Bonavista is Gander Bay, opposite which is Fogo Island, formerly frequented by the Red Indians, and on which there is now several extensive mercantile establishments. '

Exploits Bay is a broad bay, full of islands, the