Newfoundland in 1897 - Rumbolt

144 NEWFOUNDLAND :
CHAPTER XI.
Scenery of the Island : the Norway of the New World Health resoi t :
the Summers Attractions for Travellers and Tourists
Novelty of the Scenery The Fishermen Professors Bickmore
and Hyatt on the Character of the Scenery and Climate Captain
Kennedy's Testimony Archbishop of Halifax : his Experience
The London Times on Newfoundland Sport and Angling
Grouse-shooting Deer-stalking.
NOT many years have elapsed since the discovery was
made by the outside world that Newfoundland contains
some of the grandest and most beautiful scenery that
the traveller can find in any land. Formerly, the idea
"
of associating the land of fog and cod-fish " with the
sublime and beautiful in Nature would have been
scoffed at. All that was known about the island was
summed up in Burns' lines in his " Twa Dogs "-
" Some place far abroad,
Where sailors gang to fish for cod."
The prevalent idea was that it was mostly shrouded
by a curtain of fog, and that the interior was a region
of dismal swamps and naked rocks. Gradually these
mistaken ideas have been dispelled; and now every
year witnesses an increasing number of visitors from
the outside world tourists in search of the picturesque
and beautiful, travellers, health-seekers, sportsmen