Green Bay _Springs_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/28854

green Occasionally this Westerly drift has occurred in such manner that in the mad swirling of the ice-fields, what is known to t sealer as the "Main Patch" of seals has been brought so near in-shore on some p art of the Island, and with great masses of Ice Floe placed in such a fortunate fashion, that the fishermen and planters of the near-by Outports have reaped a rich harvest by working the seals from the shore - travelling in the quest, at the hazard of their lives and till far out to sea, over the fickle and treacherous ice-pans. All such Springs have long been known in Newfoundland as "Green Bay Springs" - the name being derived from one greatly-famed if quaintly-chronicled Spring of this description, which took place (as the name denoted) in Green Bay, one of the [reverse] beauty spots of Newfoundland. On this celebrated occasion, the local historian of one of the hamlets faithfully records that the "Whitecoats"(or young harp seals) were in such large numbers and so favourably places, that "even the women and the dogs made �10- a-man"! ! PRINTED ITEM Used I and Sup Not used This is the first side of a two-sided card, the other side is G_14729.