. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. N E W f O U Js D L A N D FISHER Y. 45 The inoanta-ins on the fouth-weft fide, near the fea, are very high, aiiJ termi- nate ill lofty headlands. Such are Chapeaii rouge, a moft high pro- montory ; Cape St. Aleiry's, and Cape L- Hunc. Such in general is the formation of the ifland: on the north-eaft, moft of the hiils in the interior parts of the country terminate pyramidally, but form no chain. The interior parts of the country confift. chiefly of morafles, or dry barren hummocks, or level land, with frequent lakes
. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. N E W f O U Js D L A N D FISHER Y. 45 The inoanta-ins on the fouth-weft fide, near the fea, are very high, aiiJ termi- nate ill lofty headlands. Such are Chapeaii rouge, a moft high pro- montory ; Cape St. Aleiry's, and Cape L- Hunc. Such in general is the formation of the ifland: on the north-eaft, moft of the hiils in the interior parts of the country terminate pyramidally, but form no chain. The interior parts of the country confift. chiefly of morafles, or dry barren hummocks, or level land, with frequent lakes cc ponds, and in fome places covered with ftunted black, The rivers of. Niifjfoiintlland are unfit for navigation,, but they are of iifc in floating down the wood with the I'ummer floods. Still the rivers and the brooks are excellent guides (or the hunters of beavers, and other animals,, to penetrate up the country ; which as yet has never been done deeper than thirty miles. Near the brooks it is^, that timber is commonly met with, but feldora above three or four miles inland, and in vallies ; the hills in the northern diftritSl being naked and barren. In {omQ ^â oi Newfoundland xYitrQ is timber fufficiently large for the build- ing of merchant fnips : the hulk is made of juniper, and the pine furnifhes marts and yards; but as yet none has been found large enough for a maft for a large cutter. The fifhery is divided into two feafons : that on the fhore, or the fhore feafon, commences about the 20th ; April, and ends about the 10th of OSioher \ the boats fifh in from four to twenty fathoms water. The moft important, the bank-fifliing feafon, begins the loth of May, and continues till the laft of September, and carried on in thirty to forty-five fathoms- depth of water. Banking veflcls have failed from St. John's to the bank as early as the 12th of Jpril. At firft they ufe pork or birds for a bait; but as they catch fitTi, they fupply thtmfelves with a fli
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