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To be cttVctiM'. tlnTc should hr similar rpijulations on both .siilus 

 of the Bay of Clmleiu-s." 



Doul)tless this is all \iry trui-, hut unt'tirtuiiately the Icj^is- 

 Inture of Canada is imieh too busy in j)ii.ssin«; bills (or the 

 nward ai' notorious niurtltTcrs and rrln-ls, and the opposition to 

 tlu- ministry mneh tuo l)M>>y in combatiu}; them, and striving to 

 ^et into oftiec again, to think of anythin<^ that eould benefit the 

 |tn)\nu'i', or tend to the good of any one except themselves and 

 their own innnediate partisans. 



Their own had passions, and factious partisanship, and no ex- 

 terujil causes whatsoever, are the bane aiid curse of the C'anadas ; 

 but, after all, I suppose, it matters mighty little whether the 

 legislature pa>s such a law or no ; for no human being that I 

 ever heard of in America, whether British or of the United 

 States, ever dreamed of obeying the game law, except exactly iu 

 so far as suited his own convenience. So I presume the doom 

 of the Capelin, and ultimately of the Cod, may be considered 

 sealed. 



