A. D. '1767. 



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ment of a fliip fidiery there, have now addrefled him to fupport it, 

 which he has done agreeable to their wiflies, and has alfo confirmed 

 fome regulations, agreed upon among the whalers, refpeding the divi- 

 fion of whales killed by the boats of different fhips. He adds, that the 

 crews of the vellels from the colonies, who had been accuftomed to keep 

 the coafl in a Itate of warfare, to fet the woods on fire, and to do all in 

 their power to exclude and ruin the fifhers from Great Britain, were not 

 fo licentious and iniolent this feafon as they ufed to be ; and all were 

 now convinced of the neceffity of fubmitting to order and government. 

 State of the fifhery in the feafon 1 767. 



Britilh fidiing veffels, 

 Britifh fack veflels, 

 American veffels, 

 Bye boats, 

 Boats of the inhabitants. 



Of the 258 Briiifli fifning veflels, 27 fiHied on the coafl; of Labrador. 



The 115 American veffels brought cargoes of rum, melafles, bread, 

 flour, &c. the proceeds of which, with the prices of fome of the veflels 

 fold, may be rated at ;^i 00,000, paid moflly in bills of exchange, and a 

 very fmall part of it with refufe fifh. 



The American colonifls alfo employed about 300 veffels, eftimated at 

 60 tuns and i 3 men each, in the whale fifhery about the coafts of New- 

 foundland, Labrador, and the Gulf of St. Laurence. In the gulf they 

 killed 100 of the beft whales in about fix weeks; and their fuccefs in 

 the other ftations was alfo confiderable. They alfo employed about 300 

 veflels, of about 60 tuns and 10 men each, on the banks of Newfound- 

 land and Labrador ; and each veffel may be fuppofed to take 800 quin- 

 tals, which they carried to the ports of America, whence they came. 



There were carried to foreign markets 533,620 quintals of fifli (/. e. 

 cod) the value of which was from ^/'to i ;^/", or in barter 15/", per quintal. 

 Tlie train oil was worth ^^14 or /^I5 per ton. 



There were fent off 1,006 tierces of falmon, valued about 4^each. 

 The value of feal oil made lafl winter in Newfoundland was ;C3»895- 



and in Labrador 4>937' 



1,200 fea cows were taken at Madelaine. 



Three tuns of whale-bone purchafed from the Indians, together with 

 furs taken by the inhabitans to the value of /^2, 041 , complete the pro- 

 ceeds of this government, carried in Britifii veffels, for tlie year 1767. 



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