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The Story of Newfoundland by Earl of Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead
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NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR 6

NEWFOUNDLAND IN RELATION TO WESTERN EUROPE 33

INDEX 188

[Illustration: NEWFOUNDLAND and LABRADOR]




THE STORY OF NEWFOUNDLAND


CHAPTER I

THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE


The island of Newfoundland, which is the tenth largest in the world,
is about 1640 miles distant from Ireland, and of all the American
coast is the nearest point to the Old World. Its relative position in
the northern hemisphere may well be indicated by saying that the most
northern point at Belle Isle Strait is in the same latitude as that of
Edinburgh, whilst St. John's, near the southern extremity, lies in the
same latitude as that of Paris. Strategically it forms the key to
British North America. St. John's lies about half-way between
Liverpool and New York, so that it offers a haven of refuge for needy
craft plying between England and the American metropolis. The adjacent
part of the coast is also the landing-place for most of the
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