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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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The
interior
of
the
island
is
little
known.
Not
only
is
it
uninhabited,
it
is
almost
unexplored,
a
boundless
waste
of
rock
and
moor,
where
vast
forests
stretch
out
their
unbroken
solitudes,
and
the
wild
bird
utters
its
lonely
cry.
Bears
and
wolves
roam
on
the
mountains.
Especially
common
is
the
large
and
fierce
black
wolf;
while
of
the
smaller
animals,
whose
skins
furnish
material
for
the
fur-trade,
such
as
martins
and
foxes,
there
is
the
greatest
abundance.
But
from
all
pests
of
the
serpent
tribe,
Newfoundland
is
as
free
as
Ireland,
which
was
delivered
by
the
prayers
of
St.
Patrick.
There
is
not
a
snake
or
a
frog
or
a
toad
in
the
island!
Yet,
even
in
this
ruggedness
of
nature,
there
is
a
wild
beauty,
which
only
needs
to
be
"clothed
upon"
by
the
hand
of
man.
Newfoundland,
in
many
of
its
features,
is
not
unlike
Scotland,
even
in
its
most
desolate
portions,
where
the
rocky
surface
of
the
country,
covered
with
thick
moss,
reminds
the
emigrant
Scot
of
the
heather
on
his
native
moors.
In
the
interior
are
lakes
as
long
as
Loch
Lomond,
and
mountains
as
lofty
as
Ben
Lomond
and
Ben
Nevis.
There
are
passes
as
wild
as
the
Vale
of
Glencoe,
where
one
might
feel
that
he
is
in
the
heart
of
the
Highlands,
while
the
roar
of
the
torrents
yet
more
vividly
recalls
the
Land
of
the
brown
heath
and
shaggy
wood,
Land
of
the
mountain
and
the
flood.
Yet
in
all
this
there
is
nothing
to
repel
human
habitation.
By
the
hand
of
industry,
these
wild
moors
might
be
transformed
into
fruitful
fields.
We
think
it
a
very
cold
country,
where
winter
reigns
over
half
the
year,
as
in
Greenland;
yet
it
is
not
so
far
north
as
Scotland,
nor
is
its
climate
more
inhospitable.
It
only
needs
the
same
population,
the
same
hardy
toil:
and
the
same
verdure
would
creep
up
its
hill-sides,
which
now
makes
green
and
beautiful
the
loneliest
of
Scottish
glens.
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