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If no reduction of the Duties in Spain can be obtained, a drawback 

 upon re-exportation of Fish appears too reasonable to be refused; 

 and if advantage be taken of the present favourable circumstances, 

 no doubt a preference, or some indulgence which would lead to it, 

 might be obtained in favour of the British taken fish in Spain, and 

 all the Italian states. These things being done, the Fishery might be 

 left to itself; and the less Government attended to it, the better it 

 would thrive. 



Should it be judged necessary to remove any of the present inhabit- 

 ants from the island, as many of them are Irish Catholics, he doubts 

 not they would readily accept settlements in Canada, if Government 

 would transport them there, and grant them lands, and furnish them 

 with implements of husbandry to cultivate them, and provisions for 

 their present subsistence. But if no grants of lands are made in the 

 island, and no Civil Governor or other Civil Magistrate appointed, 

 he does not apprehend there is any danger of its becoming a populous 

 colony; and as there is abundance of good ship-building timber, 

 particularly a large kind of birch, very convenient for water carriage, 

 he does not see why they might not be as useful to Great Britain, by 

 constructing vessels at Newfoundland, as the Orkneys, since they 

 must bring every material, except the timber, as well as every neces- 

 sary for themselves, from Great Britain to the one place as well as 

 to the other, and they must continue in both equally subjects of this 

 country, and equally amenable to its government. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE BRITISH DOMINIONS IN NORTH AMERICA," 

 BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, PUB. LONDON, 1831. 



The foreign trade of this province (Nova Scotia) is, in common 

 with that of the other British possessions in America, regulated by 

 the statute 6 Geo. IV., cap. 114, of the British Parliament, which 

 took effect in 1826. Halifax and Pictou were declared free-ware- 

 housing ports, under this act, for the entry, warehousing, transport- 

 ing, and exportation of all description of merchandize, with a few 

 trifling exceptions. The exports of provincial produce consist of 

 timber to Great Britain and foreign Europe; of gypsum, coal, and 

 grindstones to the United States; of lumber, fish, beef, pork, butter, 

 grain, potatoes, horses, horned cattle, and sheep to the West Indies, 

 New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Brazil. Besides provincial 

 produce, considerable quantities of fish, flour and West India produce 

 are re-exported. The imports consist of British manufactures of 

 every kind, wines, dried fruit, &c. West India produce, salt, flour, 

 and cured fish. The greatest part of this trade is carried on at Hali- 

 fax, which is the general port of entry and clearance for the greater 

 part of the province. The value of the exports, and quantity of 

 shipping employed therein in 1828 was, of exported articles, 473,8G1; 

 shipping employed, 1,651; tonnage, 132,767; navigated by 7,304 men 

 and boys. Among the articles exported were, 175,128 quintals of dry 

 fish, and 40,526 barrels of pickled fish, the latter consisting princi- 

 pally of herrings, mackarel, salmon, alewives, and shad. The im- 

 ports the same year were of the value of 847,530 in 1,694 vessels, of 

 132,174 tons, navigated by 7,342 men and boys. Such a trade, carried 



