AT NEWFOUNDLAND. 



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It is shared by both English and French fishermen : the 

 former establishing their curing-houses at St. John's, the 

 chief town ; the latter at Saint- Pierre and Miquelon 

 Islands. The curing processes adopted by both are very 

 similar. 



A shed a chaujffunt is raised upon piles, standing one 

 half in the water and one half on shore ; it is constructed 

 of planks and posts, through which the air circulates 

 freely, but roofed in with old canvas or sailcloth. Here 

 the fish are opened and washed, the intestines removed, 

 the liver carefully set aside ; after which the split fish are 

 packed between thick layers of salt, drained, and dried 

 upon the open strand.* 



DRYING COD NEWFOUNDLAND. 



The oil pressed from the liver is received into a caldron 

 sunk in the earth, and covered by a roof nine feet in 

 height. When carefully prepared, and strained off into 

 the casks, this oil is perfectly pure, almost without smell, 

 and, literally, clear as crystal. 



* Gobineau, " Tour du Monde," 1SG3. 



