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Rh are consigned to the smoke-house. The biggest are ice-packed and shipped home to friends.

A fine road goes down the valley 7 miles to Searstown facing the gulf. Here one sees salmon by the dory-load taken from nets set. a specified distance off the river mouth. The cod brought in to Searstown is sold in pickle to a firm from Gloucester which buys from all the little rooms up and down this coast.

Tompkins', on Little River, is another resort in favour with American and Canadian anglers who are rewarded by big catches of salmon and lake and sea trout. Port-aux-Basques is 20 miles south of Little River station. The train runs alongside the steamer landing for the boats to Cape Breton. The main settlement is at Channel, a mile away.

Port-aux-Basques—Battle Harbour.

The tourist arriving from St. John's by rail or coasting steamer can make connection with the Portia (as already outlined under "Transportation," Chapter XIV) for Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay (250 m.). Rounding Cape Ray and Cape Anguille the first to be reached of the five main indentations of this west coast, known still as the French Shore, is the broad-mouthed Bay of St. George, whose lower margin is overlooked from the railroad. At Port au Port on the other side