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shore, the salt nearly expended, and fish still 

 plentiful. The peoi3le informed me the fish came 

 in so fast after I left them, that they were obliged 

 to take two of their nets up, and fish with two 

 only, till Monday last ; when they put out others. 



Sunday, July 30, 1775. We put out two more 

 nets, took up two, and boated * two. We set up 

 the frame of the fishermen's house, packed five 

 tierces of fish, (a puncheon contains two tierces 

 and a half; a hogshead, one and a quarter) and 

 caught two hundred and three fish; also, had a 

 spot of ground dug, sowed some radish and turnip 

 seeds, and set some cabbage-plants which I 

 brought from Charles Harbour. 



Wednes., August 2, 1775. Four hands were at 

 work on the house till five in the evening, when 

 they were driven off by rain; they afterwards 

 picked oakum. We caught one hundred and sixty- 

 seven fish, and packed four tierces. At noon I 

 went up the river, landed on the east side, about 

 half a mile above Friend's Point, and walked to 

 the top of a small hill, from whence I had a good 

 view of the surrounding country. I observed a 

 very fine lake, about three miles long, and one 

 broad, lying on the south river, a mile higher up. 

 By the side of the east river, there were some 

 large marshes; and most of the adjacent country 

 is covered with good birch, fit for making hoops 

 and staves: the whole had a beautiful appear- 

 ance; and particularly so at this time of the year, 



* To boat a net, is, to take it into a boat and put it out immediately 

 in the same place. 



