CHAF. XXXII. SALMON FISHEEY. 19.3 



trapped, and fished, and hunted, at the close of the last 

 century. In one year he killed, between June 23 and 

 July 20, 12,396 salmon, averaging 15 lbs. apiece. He 

 says that, if it had not been for the privateer, he is confi- 

 dent he should have killed 32,000 fish, or 1,000 tierces.* 



The Eev. L. T. Eeichel states, in his Report of Visitation 

 to the Moravian Stations on the Labrador in 1861, that 

 at Nain he saw larches forty feet high, and farther 

 inland some sixty feet high. Brother Freitag showed 

 him a block of deal two feet in diameter, which, according 

 to his calculation, must have been 317 years in growing. 



On the east side of Bradore Bay, near the entrance to 

 the Straits of Belle Isle from the Gulf, the pal£eozoic rocks 

 (sandstones and Hmestones of calciferous and Potsdam 

 age) occur. They run along the coast for nearly eighty 

 miles, with a breadth of ten or twelve miles, and a slope 

 towards the water of about sixty feet in a mile.f 



* Cartwriglit's Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador, vol. ii. pp. 102^ 

 345. July, 1778. 



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