354 A. D. 1762. 



From a flatiftical llirvey of Nova Scotia, taken at this time, the po 

 pulation and cultivation were as follows. 



In Halifax 25CO people, Lunenburg 1400, Horton 900, Cornwallis 

 600, Liverpool 504, eleven other towns, or townlliips, from 60 to 350, 

 1840 — Total 7744- 



There were 14,640 acres of cleared upland in grafs, and 86,coo acres 

 of fiilt marfh in fome degree of cultivation. 



For the encouragement of the fidieries ot Nova Scotia, parliament 

 permitted fait to be carried to that province from any part of Europe 

 in Britifh veflels, as by the ad, 15 Cha. II, was allowed to Newfound- 

 land and New England. [2 Geo. Ill, c. 24, pcijfed 2d Jane.'] 



According to the report of Mr. Jones, who was fent by the governor 

 of Jamaica to the Mufquito fiiore, to acl in place of the deceafed fupcr- 

 intendent, ' from the year 175910 1762, the Mufquito fhore was in- 

 ' habited by 203 white people (the detachment of 30 ioldiers included) 

 ' witli 189 free meflees and mulattoes, about 3000 Mufquito Indians, 

 ' and 914 negro flaves, in all 4306 fouls, befides the friendly Indians 

 ' on the back part of the country. The imports of Britifli commodi- 

 ' ties, on an average amounting to /Ti 8,500 a-year, and the exports to 

 ' /J30,792, employed 11 50 tuns of Ihipping and 115 feamen.' 



The commodities furnifhed by the native Indians are mahogany, far- 

 faparilla, filk-grufs, honey, bees'-wax, deer and leopard fkins, hammocks 

 made of cotton and filk-grafs, cotton cloths called cavallys for covering 

 beds and tables, which they make large and fine, ot various colours, 

 witli llripes and figures. They alfo furnifh great quantities of turtle- 

 ftiell. 



Mr. Jones obferves, that the imports and exports of the bay of Hon- 

 duras are much larger than thofe of the Mufquito fhore. 



Parliament pafled a new ad for providing a reward for the difcovery 

 of the longitude at fea, whereby a fum not exceeding ^Taooo was ap- 

 pointed to be paid by the commiflioners of the longitude to any per- 

 fon whofe propofU they fhould think deferving of a trial. [2 Geo. Ill^ 

 c. 18.J 



The many improvements of the inflrumcnts ufed for taking the al- 

 titude of the fun, have made it perfectly eafy for navigators to afcer- 

 tain their latitude very exadly, every day that the fun is vifible. But 

 for the longitude they were obliged to depend upon the accuracy of 

 the courfe fleered, and the menfuration of the Ihip's velocity by an in- 

 flrument called the log, which are both liable to much uncertainty — 

 from the indeterminate allowance for currents and lee way, wliich mufb 

 depend on the judgment, or conjedure, of the navigator — from an er- 

 roneous conftrudion of the compafs — from erroneous meaiurement of 

 the log-line — erroneous quantity of fand in the half-minute glafs — inex- 

 perience of the perfon heaving the log — fwell of the fea — variation of 



