200 NEWFOUNDLAND.

largest of which is New World Island, close to which is Twillingate, the most northerly of the English settlements. This bay, and its river—which is the largest in Newfoundland—have been the scenes of various rencounters with the Red Indians, from which circumstance the name of Exploits is said to

have been given. The bays of Notre Dame, ‘Vhite Bay, and Hare

Bay, situated between Exploits Bay and the north- ernmost point of Newfoundland, are deep gulfs, with numerous harbours and islands, but with few settlers.

The whole of the west coast of Newfoundland, north of the bay of St George, is unsettled, although some of the lands are the best on the island. At the bay of Port au Port there is plenty of coal. The Bay of Islands receives three finerrivers, one of which, called the Humber, runs out of a large lake.* Far- ther north is Bonne Bay, which branches into two arms ; and then follow several small coves, bays, and rivers, for about sixty miles, where the Bay of Igno- rachoix, containing'three harbours, enters the island.

A few miles nearer the strait of Belle Isle, St John’s Bay is situated, containing several islands, and receiving the waters of Castor river, which flows through about thirty miles of country. The lands about this bay are mountainous. The coast, for about thirty miles north, is indented with small

* This lake is only known to the Indians, who describe it as sixty miles long. There is a dark-grey marble found at Bay of Islands.