220 



about 20,000 bbis. oi" oil, which always meets d ready sale aud iit 

 handsome prices, say from g 8 to g 12 per barrel, the most of it is 

 coDsumed in the United States. 



*' 1232 vessels employed in the Bank, Bay, and Labrador fisheries, 

 measuring - - - Tons, 85,140 



Number of men they are navigated by, 10,459 



Number of hhds. salt they consume, 178,370 hhds. 



Quantity of fish they take and cure, 1,158,700 quintals. 



Barrels of oil they make, 37,520 barrels. 



*' There are also a description of vessels called jiggers or small 

 schooners of about from 30 to 45 tons that fish in the South Chan- 

 nel, on the Shoals and Cape Sables, their number 300, they carry 

 about 4 or 5 hands, say 1200 men, and take about 75,000 qtls. of 

 fish, annually ; consume 12,000 hhds. of salt, and make about 4,000 

 barrels of oil ; their fish is generally sold for the West Indies and 

 home consumption. 



*' There are another description of fishing vessels commonly cal- 

 led Chebacco Boats or Pink Sterns ; their number 600 ; they ar6 

 from 10 to 28 tons, and carry two men and one boy each, say 1,800 

 hands ; they consume 15,000 hhds. of salt, and take and cure 

 120,000 quintals of fish, annually. These fish also are wholly 

 used for home and West India market, except the very first they 

 fake early in the spring, which are very nice indeed, and are sent 

 fo the Bilbao market, in Spain, where they always bring a great 

 price ; they make 9,000 barrels of oil ; these vessels measure about 

 10,800 tons. 



*' There are also about 200 schooners employed in the mackerel 

 fishery, measuring 8,000 tons, they carry l,(i00 men and boys, they 

 take 50,000 barrels, annually, and consume 6,000 hhds salt. 



" The alewive, shad, salmon, and herring fishery is also immense^ 

 and consumes a great quantitj'^ of salt. 



•*Whole number offishing vessels ofall descriptions 2,332 

 Measuring - - Tons, 115,940 



Number of men navigated by, 16,059 



Salt they coiisume, - - 265,370 hhds. 



Quantity of fi^h they take and cure, 1,353,700 quintals. 

 Number of barrels of oil, - 50,520 barrels. 



Number of barrels of mackerel, 50,000 barrels, 



*' There are many gentlemen assert, and roundly too, that one 

 year there were at the Labrador and Bay, over 1,700 sail beside 

 the bankers ; but I itcl very confident they are mi(ch mistaken, it 

 is impossible it can be correct." 



These papers will sutlice to show what relirtnce is to be y3laced 

 on that information concerning the value of the fishing liberties, as 

 they had been enjoyed by the people of the United States from 

 the peace of 1783, to the war of 1812, which Mr. Russell in hii; 

 letter from Paris, of 11th February, 1815, says is the best infor- 

 mation he cvn obtain : but which, in the duplicate of 1822, he di- 



