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cautions and the known alercnefs of the French on any 

 iudden ahrm, have diilK.-ar.cned the Indians, that of 

 late, dei[-)airirg of fucccf';, they feem to have defifted 

 from their pilff: Innj prafticcs. 



The manner of the i^'nf';lifh fifhery on the bays of 

 the eafr coaft of Newfoun .iland, is carried on in the 

 fame mani-er as that of the French before defcribed; 

 and whether it be that the great bank lies nearcil, or 

 that its boico'Ti is fuch as this fidi mofh delights iiij and 

 where confequently it is more numerous than in the 

 weRern paits, that nation chofe thefe parts preferably 

 to the others, as the French do not frequent the weftern 

 ib much as rhe Petit Nord. 



The frofts being fet in, laid our fquadron under a 

 neceíTity of hailening out of this bay, which it left on 

 the 2 1 ft of November, with the veiTels under its con- 

 voy J and in the offing was joined by many others, fo 

 as in the whole to form a fleet of betwixt fixty and 

 fixty-five iliips of all fizes : and among thefe were two 

 frigates of forty guns, who had continued cruifing in 

 thefe parts to fecure the fiiliery againft any attempts 

 of the French privateers. Our voyage to England 

 afforded nothing remarkable; and on the morning 

 of the 22d of December, the fquadron anchored in 

 Plymouth-found, except the Sunderiand, which kept 

 on her courfe with a confiderable part of the convoy, 

 and at three in the afternoon came to an anchor in 

 Dartmouth- road. 



Whilst our fquadron lay at Newfoundland, and in 

 the paiTagc to England, it met with feveral ftorms, 

 which I Inall fpecify, in order to convey lome idea of 

 what may be expetted in thefe feas. On tae 3d of 

 November, the wind blowing f^cih at W. and with ail 

 the appearances of a violent itorm, the wind abated 

 and the weather cleared up. But on the tenth of d^.e 

 fame month we had a ilorm at N. W. lafting from two 

 in the afternoon, till two the next morniiig; and on its 



decline 



