424 A. D. 1765. 



There were carried to foreign markets, 

 493,654 quintals of cod, 



1 172 tierces of falmon, worth 40/ to 45/" each, 

 Seal-oil made laft year, and whale-bone obtained from the Indians, to 



the amount of - - - - /?5io9 



And furs taken by the inhabitants, to the value of - - 980 



The fifhery on the coaft of Labrador employed 117 floops and fchooners 

 from the provinces of Quebec and New-England, carrying 1563 * men, 

 who between the 14th of May and the loth of July killed 104 whales, 

 each being of the average value of /^47 8, and yielding on an average 

 140 barrels of oil, and 2000 pounds of bone. The winter feal fifhery 

 on the ft\me coaft employed 107 men, who made 500 tuns of oil, be- 

 fidcs procuring furs, a coniiderable quantity of which they got from the 

 Efquimeaux (or rather Carahts, that being the indigenous name). The 

 value of the feal, cod, falmon, and furs, obtained upon that part of the 

 coafl; is eflimated at /^i 00,000, made entirely by the Britifh-Americans, 

 and the greateft part of it fold to the French. 



In the French fifhery between Bonavifta and Point-Riche there were 

 employed 117 fliips of 18,495 tuns, carrying 7862 men, who made 

 292,790 quintals of cod, and 2929 hogflieads of oil. 



The reft of the French fhipping and fiftiery was eftimated as follows. 



Sh'ips. Tutu. Men. Jgu. Cod. Hhds. OH. 



On the banks, 130 16,000 3,900 made 130,000 2,600 



At St. Pierre 20 2,600 1,200 24,000 480 



French frigates, 2 400 



Belonging to St Pierre 



andMiquelon ,and em- 

 ployed on the banks 

 and in theGulf of St. I 

 Laurence, j 



> 50 2,500 750 30,000 600 



Boats belonging to thofe 7 ^ 2^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ 



iflands, 3 



'"'SweftSr.etl - ■•-° ^^° — — 



Commodore Pallifer i-eckoned the number of the inhabitants fettled 

 upon Newfoundland to be 15,484, moft of whom were Roman Catho- 

 lics, and many of them deierters from the fliips, who, not being able 

 to follow any employment during the feven months in which there is no 

 fifhery, and being under no controul of civil government, ufed to fpend 

 that time in idlenefs, and fubfift chiefly by robbery, the whole of the 

 land cultivated by them being only 1,262 acres. He was clearly of opi- 



* A fubfequent report by Commodore Pr.Ilifcr flates die number of men to be 1452. 



