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A. D. 1745. 



Eiich of the faid 500 fliallops catches 300 quintals 

 of fifli in the fummer feafon ; in all 



And each of the brigs, fchooners, and floops, catches 

 600 quintals _ _ - - 



150,000 quintals. 

 36,000 



Total fifli annually -made at Cape-Breton, i86,coo quintals. 

 Now, to carry this fifli to Europe there muft be 

 employed 93 fliips, of the burden of 2000 quintals 

 each, and each fliip has 20 failors ; in all - i860 men. 



Total men employed in the fifliery of Cape-Breton, 5260 

 At Gafpay, Qj_iadre, and other harbours, mentioned in the following 

 eftimate, there are fix fliips yearly, which, as they come out from 

 France, manned to catch their own cargoes in fliallops (which they 

 haul up, and leave in the country every winter till they return in the 

 next fpring) may, one with another, be allowed fixty hands. And it 

 has always been allowed from St. Maloes and Granville that they have 

 at leaft three hundred fail of thofe fliips in this fifliery, that fifli at Petit- 

 nord, Fichance, Belleifle, and the gulf, which (all being computed as 

 above, and allowing thofe fliips that fo come out to make their own 

 voyages, to carry each three thoufand quintals) will be as follows, viz. 



At Cape-Breton, 



— Gafpay, 



— Qiiadre, 



— Porte en Bafque, 



— Les Foils ifles, 



— St. Maloes, &c. 



Total, 414 24,520 i,r49,ooa 



Tliere go alfo fliips from St. Jean de Luz, Bayonne, Nantes, and Havre 

 de Grace ; and befides all thefe, there have been conftantly from the 

 rivers Sindie, Olune, Poiteux, Havre, &c. 150 fliips at leaft (the French 

 fay 200 fail) employed in the mud-fifliery, (or mort-veft, as they call it) 

 from 16 to 24 men each, which carry home from 22,000 to 30,000 

 fifli each. So, on the moft moderate computation, 150 fail of fliips, 

 with 20 men each, is 3000 men ; and by tale, 3,900,000 fiflies in all. 



In regard to the value of this branch of trade, it is neceflliry to ob- 

 ferve, that it alfo produces a large quantity of train-oil, viz. a hogfliead 

 of 60 gallons of oil out of every hundred quintals of fifli, and this out 

 of the whole quantity will produce 11,490 hogflieads of oil. And al- 

 lowing that 4000 fifli in number are equal to 100 quintals when cured, 

 then the 3,900,000 mud-fifli, by the fame rule, will yield 975 hogflieads 

 of oil ; which makes in all 12,465 hogflieads of oil. 

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