The New Student's Reference Work/Banks of Newfoundland

Banks of Newfoundland, The, extending for a length of some six hundred miles, are famous for their cod fisheries. Other fish are also abundant on the Banks; and it may be said that Newfoundland depends almost entirely upon its cod, seal and herring industries. The Banks are believed to have been gradually formed through the melting of icebergs, which here come into contact with the warm waters of the Gulf Stream and deposit the earth and stones which they may have carried from Arctic shores.