Excerpt from A History of Newfoundland: From the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records The publication of this new edition gives me an Opportunity of performing two very pleasant tasks, to record the advance and prosperity Of the Colony during the past year, and to thank my reviewers everywhere for the generous praise they have bestowed upon my first attempt at authorship. I thank them not Only for myself, but on behalf of my fellow colonists; the kindly notice they have taken of my volume is not so 'much due to any small merits in the work, it is far more the expression of kindly interest so universally felt for England's most ancient Colony, whose sad eventful history I have endeavoured truthfully to relate. In the introduction to my first edition I mentioned the friendly helpers who assisted me in its preparation; in the present volume I wish brie y to record my thanks to those who aided me in its publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."