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float on the water, and which make them of a 

 bad quality ; and that, the bed feafons for faking 

 are, fpring and autumn. 4. In winter, befides 

 the danger of being furrounded with ice, there is 

 only final 1 cod to be found. 5. The choice of 

 fait is alfo an important confideration. 'Tis gene- 

 rally imagined, that old French fait, that has loft 

 its fharpnefs and bitternefs, is preferable to white 

 fait, and that it gives the cod a delicacy, which is 

 more to be valued, than the whitenefs caufed by 

 other forts of fait. 



Of Salt brought back after tie Ft/king feafon. 



Salt is often brought back from the bank of 

 Newfoundland. It is diftinguiftied into two forts ; 

 the one is called new fait, the other old fait. 



New fait is that, which had been carried out, 

 and not been made ufe of. The filhermen fay, 

 that this fait contracts a bad quality, and that its 

 ftrength is weakened by having been kept at fea, 

 and they aflert, that feveral perfons have loft their 

 cargoes on account of their having ufed this fort 

 of fait, and that, at leaft, it makes the cod red, 

 which the purchafers dont like. 



It is probable, that the caufe of fome cargoes 

 being fpoiled, was not the ufe of this fait, but, 

 that the fifli had been taken and faked in a bad 

 feafon. When trade was carried on with the 

 North, this fait ufed to fell as high as the other, 



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