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Excerpt from Newfoundland, Its Climate, Geographical Position, Resources, Etc
IN presenting to your notice this evening, a brief description of the Island of Newfoundland, I do not wish to take credit for anything of a literary character, but mere ly to string together such facts as have been gathered from a residence in that Island during a number of years, with such extracts as I found necessary from different authors who have written on the above subject. If I shall be the means of enlightening even one individual, I shall consider myself amply repaid for my trouble, as really so little is known concerning this noble Island that one would ima gine it existed somewhere in the South Seas instead of being within three days' sail of the port of Quebec. I shall commence by telling you that Newfoundland is situated east of the Gulf and River Saint Lawrence, which separate it from the American Continent on its western side, its north being boundedby the Straits of belle-isle, which are about from ten to twenty miles wide its eastern and southern shores being washed by the great Atlantic. It lies between the latitudes of 46 37 and 51 40 North, and the longitudes of 52 41 and 59 31 West. It is the nearest to Europe of any part of America, the distance from St. John's to Port Valentia, on the West Coast of Ireland.
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