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Rh the Terra Nova, Gander and Triton Rivers, all of which traverse an unsurpassed hunting and fishing country.

Notre Dame Bay.

A 10-mile rail journey from Notre Dame Junction terminates at Lewisporte at the bottom of Notre Dame Bay. Twice a week a steamer goes as far to the northeast as Fogo, calling at Exploits, Herring Neck, Twillingate and other harbours en route. Another steamer has bi-weekly sailings toward the west and north to Leading Tickles, Pilley's Island, Springdale, Green Bay ports, Nipper's Harbour, Snook's Arm and Tilt Cove. Either way there are inconceivably beautiful views of green heights and islands "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew," and of armlets that environ farm and fishing hamlets with placid deep-blue streams.

Exploits is due north of Lewisporte at the delta of Newfoundland's largest river. Twillingate, "the northern capital," is 14 miles beyond. One of the crowning vistas of the whole bay is disclosed at Herring Neck. Southward is Dildo Run with unusual rock formations. Fogo, situated on two islands, was formerly reputed for its purebred Newfoundland dogs. The species has now so far degenerated that when the King of England, then Prince of Wales, visited the island a few years back there was a great to-do to find one