INDEX 455 



Membrino Chief, visit of to Iceland, 2, 3, 278, 279. 

 Mississippi River, demands of British for free navigations of, 155. 

 Molasses Act of 1733, reasons for, 102, 103; provisions of, 103; 

 effects of, 103-110. 



Newburyport, fisheries of, 147, 184, 185. 



New England, first direct voyage to, 31; naming of, 34; part in 

 Queen Anne's War, 79; port towns of, suffering during Revo- 

 lution, 122, 123. 



New England fisheries, attitude of England toward, 76; expansion 

 of, 77; impossibility of geographical review of, 176; comparison 

 of in 1880 and 1905, 292, 293; general status of, 293. 



New Hampshire, named, 50; fisheries of, 83, 146, 184. 



New London, interest in whale and Antarctic fishery, 176, 177. 



Newfoundland, traditional discovery of, 22, 23; early settlement of, 

 24; fisheries, beginning of quarrel over, 26; England's claim 

 to, 27; attempted depopulation of, 70, 71; English admirals 

 at, 75, 76; herring fishery of, cause of trouble, 204; and the 

 fisheries question, 335-337. 



North's, Lord, bill, against trade of colonies, 112-120; for encour- 

 agement of British and Irish fisheries, 119. 



Oysters, 240-243; range of, 18; center of industry, 18; transplanting 

 of, 241; industry in New England, 241-243; private cultivation 

 of in R. I., 242; destruction of by star fish, 242. 



Peace of 1783, questions entering into, 125; agreement concerning 



fisheries, 127, 128; and 1818 compared, 158, 159. 

 " Pemaquid grant," 51. 



Pepperell, William, commander of Louisburg expedition, 92. 

 Peter, Rev. Hugh, interest of in fishing business, 57, 58. 

 Phipps, Sir William, expedition against Nova Scotia, 73. 

 Pilgrims, intentions regarding fisheries, 38; as fishermen, 38, 39; 



fortunate situation of, 39, 40; misfortunes of, 40, 42, 43. 

 Pinckney, Charles C., speech of in behalf of fisheries, 132. 

 Pinky, evolution and description of, 314, 315. 

 Plymouth, destitution at in, 1623, 41-43; influence of colony at on 



further settlement, 46; first vessel built at, 53; fisheries of, 149, 



187; beginning of boat-building at, 309. 



Popham and Gorges, attempted colony of on the Kennebec, 33. 

 " Porgy press," 224. 

 Portland, settlement at, 51; as fishing and commercial center, 182, 



183.' 



Port Royal (Annapolis), settlement of, 29. 

 Portuguese, influence of early voyages of, 23. 

 Pring, Martin, voyage of to New England, 32. 

 Provincetown, fisheries of, 149, 188. 

 Purse-seines, use of in mackerel fishing, 267. 



Quahog, industry, 245. 



Queen Anne's War, cause of, 78, 79 ; New England's part in, 79. 



