and the great barn built by himself (he was a road surveyor and
sensed the values to come, and could clear and build with his
own hands, the Government helping with bull-dozers): the whole of
this area neatly set back behind a belt of trees. Secondly, north-
west of Deer Lake the agricultural frontier on the Lomond Road,
which was started as a settlement scheme after World War I, and
named Cormack after the explorer. They brought up fishermen as
settlers, some of whom made good, and the present population owes
much to the agricultural officers who lived with them and worked
for them.

It is a far cry from West Coast, Newfoundland to West Country,
England, and yet there are analogies. The Great Western Railway
of England and the Great West Road have their counterpart in the
coastal communications by rail and road on the West Coast of New-
foundland. I would think that there are on this West Coast of
Newfoundland almost as many gravel pits as farms, and almost as
many men employed in road making as in cultivating the land.
And what of a Newfoundland woollen industry? Is there any sign
of this? There are certainly hundreds of wiry sheep, mostly on the
road side, alike on the east and west coast of the Island, which
marvellously escape being run over; and in Grand Codroy I went to
Gale's Wool Combing Mill, where the raw wool is carded. "It
should be made into jerseys in Newfoundland," said the foreman,
and I heartily agreed.

"Good-bye now! West Coast": and so over to Wessex.

Bristol on the Severn, the second city of Elizabethan England,
just as it was inwards the gateway to the Midlands, so it was out-
wards the gateway to the High Seas of Empire in North America,
the West Indies, the Brazils and the Guinea coast of Africa. At the
exit of the Bristol Channel in North Devon are two small ports,
famous in their day, Bideford and Barnstaple, situated in what the
atlas calls "Bideford or Barnstaple Bay." They drew their commerce
from Bristol and continued to send fishing boats to Newfoundland
long after the other ports of the West Country had given this up.
Bristol itself soon had bigger ventures in view--sugar, tobacco,
slave-carrying, and might there not be a new passage by north-east
or north-west to far Cathay? Bristol Grammar School, which in
our time has sent out T. R. Glover to profess the classics at Queen's
University, Kingston, Ont., and Sir Oliver Franks to be our
ambassador to Washington, celebrates 1534 as its charter year.

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