of St. George's Bay, from which it is distant about fifteen miles. Seven miles from this end it divides into two arms, each about a mile wide, inclosing an island twenty-two miles long and four or five broad, to which the name Sir John Glover's Island has been given of late, in compliment to the late Governor, who in 1878 visited and explored the lake. From the island the lake runs in a north-eastern direction, and widens to a breadth of five or six miles. The shores are densely wooded to the water's-edge, in some places precipitous, in others presenting a gentle rise. The scenery in summer, when the trees are clad in "living green," or still more in autumn, when the leaves are russet, orange, and gold, is magnificent. The island is covered with valuable timber, but what the character of its soil may be is yet unknown. It is a favourite resort of the reindeer in summer, and the shores of the lake opposite to it present the best ground for deer-stalking in the island, as the deer swim across when setting out on their southern migration, and collect in herds on the "barrens" the lake.

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The next largest lake is Red Indian Lake, through which the River Exploits flows. It is thirty-seven miles long, and from half-a-mile to three miles wide, with an area of sixty-four square miles. Around its shores are forests of fine timber, indicative of a fertile soil. Great Gander Lake is thirty-three miles in length, with an average width of two miles, and covers an area of forty-four square miles. Its banks, and that of the Gander River which flows through it, present immense tracts of the finest agricultural and timber lands in the island. Deer Lake, through which the Humber flows, is but ten feet above the high-tide level, and has an area of twenty-four square miles. The land around it is fertile in the highest degree. Sandy Lake, Victoria, Hind's, Terra Nova, and George IV. lakes range next in size.

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As yet the shores of these great lakes, the valleys through which these noble streams flow, are absolute solitudes, without a single human inhabitant. The magnificent pine forests are left to rot, or perish by fire. The soil is fertile enough to sustain many thousands of people in comfort, but it is as yet untouched by plough or spade. The "forests primeval" show no clearings won by human industry. All is primitive wilderness. It may seem surprising that such should be the case in an island only five days' steaming distance from Great Britain, and with thousands of emigrants passing these shores every day to seek a home in the far west of America. But it must be remembered that until recently the very existence of Newfoundland's fertile lands and valuable forests was unknown. Now that the great revolutionist, the railway, is about to render her solitudes accessible, a portion of the great stream of emigration will ere long be diverted towards these untenanted wastes, which, by human industry, may be made to "blossom like the rose."