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Q. But you were never inshore in a fog ? A. Yes ; if we were inshore 

 in a fog we would go into a harbor. 



Q. And you still adhere to your statement that this week's fog would 

 do more harm in the mild summer weather in the bay than all the storms 

 and snows and rains on your own coast in winter ? Did you not swear 

 that the fog in the bay dil more harm to the sails and rigging ot the 

 vessels, and cause more wear and tenr than all the wear and tear of 

 your winter work on your own coast? Did you not state that more wear 

 and tear was caused by fog iu the bay than by all the storms on your 

 own coast f A. No ; I did not sy that. 



Q. Did you not tell me so? A. I did not say in the winter time; I 

 said while fishing on the New England coast. 



Q. I will put the question again : Do you say that there is more dam- 

 age done the sails by summer weather iu the bay than through wear and 

 tear in winter on your own coast? A. I think not. 



Q. Did you not tell me a little while ago that more wear and tear was 

 sustained by your vessels iu the bay iu summer than on your own coast 

 in winter ? A. Well ? 



Q. Did you not say that ? A. I did not understand you. 



Q. Did you not say that ? Did you say so or not ? A. I did not put 

 it so strong as that. 



Q. Was that what you said or not ? A. If I did say so I meant that 

 one week's fog in the bay would do more harm to a suit of sails than 

 would be done while fishing on our New England coast. 



Q. By all your winter's fishing? A. I did not mean winter fishing, 

 but the same an.ouut of time on our coast. 



Q. That is to say that one week's fog in the bay would do more harm 

 than a week of winter weather on your coast ? A. Yes. 



Q. But suppose you then happened to have for a week storms of snow 

 and rain, with frost, following each other, would this do more harm than 

 the other alternative? A. Perhaps it would, but I think not. 



Q. You think that more damage would be done on your coast in such 

 weather as that ? A. I do not understand jou. 



Q. I understood you first to say that more damage would be doue iu 

 the bay to a vessel, taking the season through, than would be done on 

 your coast through all the storms of winter; and I understood you to 

 give as your reason for this that there might be a week's fog there ; and 

 now you say you only meant that if a vessel was in a fog for a week in 

 the bay this would do as much damage as during a week of winter 

 weather on your own coast ; will you swear that a week's fog in the bay 

 is as bad, or anything like it, as a week's storm of rain and snow, with 

 frost and thaw following, one after another, on your own coast iu win 

 ter ? A. Well, I do not know that it would. I do not think that it 

 would. 



Q. I am told that there is no such thing as a week's fog in the bay. 

 Tell me in what year you saw that fog ? A. 1 saw it in 1851 and in 

 1853. 



Q. You were there in 1851 and 1852 ? A. Yes. 



Q. And in 1853 I A. Yes. 



Q. You only saw it in 1851 ? A. And in 1853 yes. 



Q. You did not see it in 1852 at all? A. Ye< ; we then had a tog. 



i. You saw it in 1851 ? A. Yes. 



Q. During how long a time? A. I could not say. 



Q. For a week ? A. I think so, and more. 



Q. More than a week ? A. I think so. 



