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<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ fade_animation_offset=”45px”][vc_column_text]The origin of the name “Lewis Hills” is unknown, but as Jacques Cartier<\/a><\/span> named a nearby headland “Cape Royal”, it likely derives from the name of a French King Louis (e.g., Louis XIII or XIV) whose claim to this coastline dated back to Cartier’s voyage of discovery in 1534.\u00a0 French rule of the coast was officially recognized by the Treaty of Versailles in 1783 when the boundaries of the French Shore were changed to Cape St John on the northeast coast to Cape Ray on the southwest coast.\u00a0 A new detailed chart of the coast was published in 1768 by James Cook<\/a><\/span> who surveyed the region in 1767 after the Seven Years War.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMap at left is from James Cook’s A General Chart of the Island of Newfoundland<\/em> published in 1775, with Serpentine River named Coal River.<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”20px” padding_bottom=”20px” bg_video=”” class=”” style=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″ fade_animation_offset=”45px”][vc_column_text]The Lewis Hills are the most southerly of the four Bay of Islands Ophiolite Massifs, and rising to a height of 814 meters (2,671 ft) at the Cabox, they contain the highest point on the island of Newfoundland.\u00a0 They are 24 kms (14 miles) long and 10 kms (6 miles) wide and bounded by Serpentine River in the north, Gulf of St Lawrence in the west, and Fox Island River in the south and east.\u00a0 Road access to the massif is provided by Logger School logging road in the northeast (via the Trans Canada Highway and towns of Mount Moriah and Benoit’s Cove in Humber Arm) and Cold Brook logging road in the southeast (via the town of Stephenville).\u00a0 The IATNL\u00a0Lewis Hills Trail<\/em><\/span><\/a> and UltramaTrex<\/a><\/span><\/em> are north to south hiking routes that provide access to the plateau and most of the scenic gulches. Cell phone reception is available at some of the highest elevations such as the Cabox, as well as on the eastern and southern slopes at elevations above the surrounding hills.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ fade_animation_offset=”45px”][vc_column_text]