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• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/47116

main a M_13047: Occaisionally this Westerly drift has occurred in such manner that in the mad swirling of the ice-fields, what is known to the sealer as the "Main Patche" of seals has been brought so near in-shore on some part of the Island, and with great masses of the Ice FLoe placed in such a fortunate fashion, that the fishermen and planters of the xxxxxx near-by Outports have reaped a rich harvest by working the seals from the shore - travelling in their 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-chronicles Spring of this description, which took place (as the name denoted) in Green Bay, one of the (over) [Reverse] M_13048: Beauty spots of Newfoundland. On this celebrated occasion, the local historian of the Hamlets faithfully records that the "Whitecoats" (or young Harp seals) were in such large numbers and so favorably placed, that "even the women and the dogs made �10- a-man"! ! PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used main patch, PATCH, main road,~ patch, ~ warp Checked by Rebecca Nolan on Thu 01 Oct 2015, Stamped but not used . Reverse side of M_13047