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been raised amongst us, and his rage is vehement and 

 terrible, and when he shall be silenced the Lord only 

 knows." 



From Salem I proceeded to Marblehead, the sterile 

 appearance of which reminded me of mj own native 

 land. Marblehead is Newfoundland in miniature. 

 On the barren rods which for the most part surround 

 the harbor, are erected fish-flakes, for the purpose of 

 curing fish on. What would a Newfoundland fisher- 

 man think of seeing fish-flakes only three feet high, 

 six or eight feet wide, and from ten to twenty feet 

 long, built of narrow strips of board, and so frail as 

 to be incapable of bearing a person to walk on them ! 

 I am sure he would laugh at such an aifair. Such, 

 however, are the fish-flakes of Marblehead. From 

 the first settlement of the country to the present time, 

 Marblehead has been celebrated for its enterprise in 

 the fisheries. At the commencement of the war 

 between Great Britian and America, this was the 

 second important town in the colony of Massachusetts. 

 It is distant from Boston sixteen miles, and contains 

 a population of 8,000. The number of vessels be- 

 longing to this place is about 100, which are employ- 

 ed at the Banks, and in the Labrador Cod Fishery 



