8 A l'l EP AT 



. Of the imports, £280,000, or 

 1.1/ rorth are from the United States, 



wn y l mount to only 



100,000 dollars. Nearly the whole of 

 the export produce co of fish and oil. New- 



foundland employs upwards of 300 vessels in the seal 



lis annually taken is about 



». Taking into account the fisheries and for- 



ing trade, Newfoundland annually cm- 



!-. St. John's, the 



:' i!i ■ island, contains a population of about 



n vi ited by three terrible confla- 



',. each time, nearly the whole town 



I. The last occurred on the 0th of June, 



) ] ises were destroyed, and 



to the amount of £>00,000, or -1,000,000 



dull. "ii d. On the 12th of February, 1816, 



a in ictive Gre desolated a great part of the 



town of I l's. When the intelligence of this 



calamitou reached the city of Boston, a deep 



anl pow irful sympathy was excited among her citizens 



for tl ition of 1 ~>00 human beings, left hoine- 



ind i inniless amid the frosts and storms of a 



. 11 .nd winter. Burying in oblivion the rccol- 



he year previous the two countries were 



