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Peeps at Many Lands: Newfoundland

Chapter 21: Transcriber’s Note
By Ford Fairford
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The text offers a concise travel and natural-history account of a North Atlantic island, dispelling myths of Arctic isolation while detailing rugged coasts, deep bays, and secure natural harbours. It surveys topography, rivers, lakes, forests, and seasonal scenery, and outlines inhabitants and livelihoods built around fisheries, sealing, and whaling. Chapters describe maritime dangers, fishing methods and drying stages, timber and mineral resources, rail travel across the interior, icy coasts and glaciers, and sporting pursuits such as hunting and angling. Portraits of home life, a distinctive working dog breed, and hazardous voyages provide human texture to the physical and economic picture.

Transcriber’s Note

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unpaired quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

List of Illustrations: “Indian Burying-Place Near Exploits” was not found in the source materials of the original book. The actual cover, which was not included in those source materials, uses the illustration facing page 30.

Page 6: The quotation attributed to John Guy contains many words spelled differently than how they are spelled today. These and other possibly archaic or dialect spellings have not been changed.

Page 57: The caption SEALS ON “PACK-ICE” was omitted in the original book but added by Transcriber by copying it from the List of Illustrations.