An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . , but restored by the peace of Utrecht, in then continued to increase in importance, with butslight interruptions, until the War of Independence. In 1775, theNew England colonists were forbidden to participate in the fisheries;but, in revenge, these high-spirited men refused to supply the crewssof vessels with provisions ; a plan that reduced them almost to starv
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . , but restored by the peace of Utrecht, in then continued to increase in importance, with butslight interruptions, until the War of Independence. In 1775, theNew England colonists were forbidden to participate in the fisheries;but, in revenge, these high-spirited men refused to supply the crewssof vessels with provisions ; a plan that reduced them almost to starvation. They thus found it necessary either to return home or torepair to some of the other colonies. At the close of the war,Great Britain repealed most of her onerous laws, and from that timeboth the settlements of Newfoundland and its fisheries increasedrapidly in prosperity. The latter are now free to all nations, andnumbers of ships are annually employed by the great maritiujepowers of England, France, and the United States, in this dan-gerous occupation. The total population of Newfoundland is atpresent about seventy thousand, of whom more than one-half areUoman C )lics. 188 BRITISH 3! NTO HUDSONS BAT V. LABRADOR AND NEW BRITAIN. E have divided the territory north oiCanada into two great na-tural divisions, known asLabrador and New Bri-tain. The former countryis of very little historicalimportance. The coastwas first discovered bySebastian Cabot, in 1496,and was afterwards visited (1501) and named (Terra Labrador) ;par Cortereal. During the sixteenth century, it was visited byvarious Europeans, and attempts made to settle and carry onthe cod-fishery along the coast. An impulse was given to theseefforts by the Moravian missionaries, who, in 1752, settled at Hope-dale and other places. After numerous hardships, they obtainedfrom government, in May, 1769, a tract of land, on which to settleand carry ©n their praiseworthy exertions. The missions ha
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