Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — No Reptiles in Newfoundland. [ARTICLE]

No Reptiles in Newfoundland.

There is plenty of game in Newfoundland. but not a reptile of any kind—snake, toad, frog, lizard, or even turtle—and no one ever saw a squirrel, porcupine, mouse, or lynx anywhere within its boundaries. This is all the more singular because the adjoining provinces of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton have all of these animals and many kinds of snakes and other reptiles. On the other hand the Arotlo hare is abundant in Newfoundland, but is not found in Nova Scotia or Cape Breton. The summer nights of Nova Scotia are made brilliant by fire-flies, but no firefly ever lights up a Newfoundland nocturnal landscape by its sparkling flight.