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favour of the English, who retained the exclusive 

 possession of Hudson's Bay. New Scotland was 

 given up to them, and the southern and eastern 

 coasts of Newfoundland, as well as the entire terri- 

 torial jurisdiction of the island. This treaty, how- 

 ever, guaranteed to the French the exclusive occu- 

 pation of the fisheries on the eastern coasts of the 

 island, from Cape Bonavista to the southern point, 

 and from thence on the western coast to Cape 

 Rich, without giving them the right to set upon 

 the coast any erections but fishermen's huts and 

 magazines. 



The peace of 1788 gave to France the exclusive 

 right to fish an the coast of Newfoundland, from 

 Cape St. John, on the east coast, a little to the 

 north of 50° north latitude, up to the Strait of 

 Belle Isle, including the western coast of New- 

 foundland down to Cape Bay, at the extreme south- 

 west of the island. The same rights (and also those 

 over the islands of Miquelon and of St. Pierre) have 

 been confirmed to France by the treaty signed at 

 Paris in 1814. 



During the two long wars with England, the 

 French fisheries had been entirely destroyed; but 

 they Avere resumed immediately after the peace, 

 and were encouraged and increased by the bonuses 

 offered by the government. The French law offered 

 a bonus of fifty francs [92.) for each man of the crew 

 that dried its fish on the Newfoundland coast, and 



