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laden with seals arrived at St. John in a single week. They caught 

 69,814 of the objects of their search. One of these vessels took up- 

 wards of 3,000 in six da^^s, and another, still more successful, about 

 3,500 in the same time. The intense excitement which attended the 

 slaughter of so large numbers, in so short a space, can Ijc readily ima- 

 gined. 



Reference to the table of statistics will afford information as to the 

 general state of this branch of industry since the year 1S30. It will be 

 seen that the return of vessels fitted out, is from the port St. Jolui alone. 

 The number from Concepcion, Trinity, and Bonavista bays, and from 

 other parts of the island, is known to be considerable, and in 1845 to 

 have exceeded that of the capital, but I have been unable to procure 

 accurate accounts for any other year. 



Statistics of the Newfoundland seal fishery.* 



* The vessels were from the port of St. John, except in 1847, 1848, and 1849. 

 t Estimated from the several accounts of the catch of that year. 



FISHERIES OF NOVA SCOTIA. 



The original grantee of that half fabulous, never defined country, 

 Acadia, was Pierre de Gast Sieure de Monts, a protestant, and a gen- 

 tleman of the bed-chamber of Henry the Fourth of France. In 1603, 



