FISHERIES OP THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



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that of the same class in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen-^ 

 turies. The cod was the primary object of pursuit, and then, 

 as now, was taken by the line in deep waters. Although 



STAGING FOR CODFISH. 



(Reproduced from La Potherie's Histoire de VAmcrique Septen- 



trionale.) 



Hakluyt speaks of some taking the fish home wet, yet the 

 earliest glimpses we obtain of them show them as having 

 establishments on land, as well for the preparation of it for 

 market, as for the prosecution of the inshore fishery. Here 



