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en excellent ga t-de n of fine, r i ch deep eotL, an d grow sp l e ndid crops of pot.at.oee ,
The crops gr-ovn on Capt . Winsor' s fa rm at Domfnfon Point, e Lao bear abundan t
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testimony to the fertility of the so i l . I hav e se en wheat grown here whi ch II
Cenad i an farmer pronounce d to be 8S nne a grain e s he had ever seen .
Once past tligwam Poi nt ,
the Upper Sandy Poi nt , at the mouth of the r iver, and
the l ower reache s of the river itself are brought open on the on" hand, and Norris
Arm, 8 l ong narrow inlet st r e tching 8way eaat.ver-d f or nearly six miles, on t he
other . This Arm i s one of the most pi ct uresque p'Ie ce a in th., Day , and beautifully
situat ed , so 8 8 t o 11~ rieht in the eye of t he sun , being ",,,]1 shel t ered from all
the co l dest vfnda, A high ridge of "wooed hill s s t r etche s along its Southern efde ,
running ve r y straigh t a nd pointing up t o t .he Exploits Valley . Over this ridge, far
aV8Y to t he Sout .hva r-d, the faint bkue outl ine of Mount Peyton , near the western end
of the grea t Gander Lake , i s c.Ie ar-Iy discernab l e .
Upper San dy Point , whi ch marks the entrance to the river , i s also the furthe st
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Umit of civilizati on . A t y pi cal s pecfeen of t.he old English se I mon catcher a nd
furri e r , and one of the f e'ol of t ha t 01",-",," su:rv ivine, dve Ll s here Ln a large , old
vooden hou se , once the pr ope r ty of t he Peyton f amily, who built an d occupied it for
many years 1n the go od ol d days of yore, when salmon were plentiful and
skins fetched a guinea per p~d .
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The Peytona were nome of those vhc had acquired the monopoly of that lucrative
business in this favored loca lity, an d who exercise d over t he bay and river, an d
t.he dve'lI e r -s t he r e i n, s l gnaur i al authority. The large old hOURCI \lith its doub'le
cbilUleya , s t or es , out houses, vh ar-ve e , etc . , v cu'ld at once et c-fke the eye of 8
s t ranger 8 S evidence of bygone affluencf'). It i s a lovely, gr-een , Bunny slope , fit
for the t-eafd enc e of 8 prince .
One hundred and fifty milen of den se primerial for-e ut land , covered for the
1II0st pa r t over the sur-Ieee vf t .h 8 very su pe r -Lor- QU811ty of sof L, e tr-et.ehee ve at.ver-d