. Text-book of Newfoundland history, for the use of schools and academies. iles are in course of fine steamers of the Allan Line make weekly callsat St. Johns, and afford speedy means of communica-tion with Britain and America. Local steamers connectthe principal outports with the capital. All these indi-cate an increase in wealth and in the appliances ofcivilized life. 6. As yet only the fringe around the coast of theisland is occupied. The fertile lands, the great forestsof the interior, are still untouched. The mineral treas-ures are barely opened ; the coal-beds are yet un
. Text-book of Newfoundland history, for the use of schools and academies. iles are in course of fine steamers of the Allan Line make weekly callsat St. Johns, and afford speedy means of communica-tion with Britain and America. Local steamers connectthe principal outports with the capital. All these indi-cate an increase in wealth and in the appliances ofcivilized life. 6. As yet only the fringe around the coast of theisland is occupied. The fertile lands, the great forestsof the interior, are still untouched. The mineral treas-ures are barely opened ; the coal-beds are yet undis-turbed. When these are turned to account the populationof the island will be reckoned by millions. Sooner orlater this great island is destined to be overspread bya thriving, industrious population who will utilize itssplendid resources. 7. Thus facts warrant us in predicting a great futurefor Newfoundland. In its treasures of sea and land, of CONCLUSION. K59 forest and mine, Nature lias bestowed on its people anoble heritage. The riches of its encompassing seas are. Tr-- COCHRANE-9TREET METHODIST CHURCH, ST. JOHNS. inexhaustible, — greater than the gold and silver minesof ^lexico and Peru. Three centuries have failed toshow any diminution in their value, though ever-increas-int; drafts have been made on those treasures of the 170 CONCLUSION. deep. The Great Banks, 600 miles in length, with theirswarming fish-life, are but a days sail from the shoresof the island. In its dependency of Labrador thecolony has another fishing-ground of incalculable the summer of 1883 there were taken on Labrador650,000 quintals of codfish, and the total value of itsproduce that year was $2,592,000. The seal-fishery,prosecuted at a time when no other marine industries arepracticable, yields an average of a million and a quarter ofdollars annually. The geographical position of the islandfor commercial purposes could not be surpassed; it isbut 1,640 miles from the coast of Ireland; it
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