336 LABRADOR 



unique. In 1776, August 7 to 11, Cartwright took 1230 

 salmon from the pool in one week. " At Paradise we have 

 214 tierce ashore. Few escape there/' In his " artless" 

 poem he writes : 



"... salmon up fresh rivers take their way, 

 For them the stream is carefully beset; few fish escape." 



That is not to be wondered at, for he says, "My ten nets, 

 each forty fathoms long, fastened end to end, stretch right 

 across the stream." 



On July 17, 1779, 



"In Eagle River we are killing 750 salmon a day, or 

 35 tierce, and we would have killed more had we had more 

 nets. Three hundred and fifty tierce ashore already at 

 Paradise. If I had more nets, I could have killed a 

 thousand tierce alone at this post, the fish averaging from 

 15 to 32 pounds apiece. At Sandhill Cove two men have 

 240 tierce ashore, and would have had more, but we had no 

 more salt." 



From June 23 to July 20, in Eagle River, he killed 

 12,396 fish, or 300 tierce. In 1782 he writes : " Little or no 

 salmon at Cartwright, only 80 tierce." In 1786 he writes : 

 "We have 490 tierce in White Bear River, and Paradise 

 R. and 165 tierce at Charles Hr." Naturally enough the 

 archaic story of the clause in the apprentice's indentures, 

 that he was "not to be forced to eat salmon more than 

 thrice a week" is told of Labrador in these days. 



In 1818 Mr. Pinson was getting two hundred tierce of 

 salmon at Cartwright. He received a bounty of three 

 shillings per quintal for this shipment to England. 



In 1864 Mr, Stone's average catch at Henley was sixty 



