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HISTORY AXD METHODS OF THE FISHERIES. 



The weather during the second baiting was quiet uutil, toward the last of August, we had 

 perpetual fog, hardly a day passing when the sky was clear in every direction. The thermometer 

 marked on the average in the vicinity of GO , with a little lower reading for the temperature of the 

 surface of the ocean. During September the weather was perfect; not only was the average tem- 

 perature warmer, but the air was clear from fog duriug a large part of the time. The suu shoue 

 brightly all day and set in splendor, and during the nights the moon shone in almost cloudless 

 skies. Once duriug the third baitiug the wind rose to a gale, and though the trawls were all out 

 the skipper did not think it prudent to risk going after them. Late in the day the sea went down 

 a little, and the dories ventured out. The trawls were very much injured from the rough usage 

 they had passed through, and more than half were entirely lost. I made thermometric observa- 

 tions during this time, until a heavy lurch of the vessel threw down my thermometer and broke it, 

 and during the third baiting barometric observations. 



On the 29th of September the skipper gave the order to "give her the big mainsail." The 

 dories were all cleaned out and fastened securely in their places, the vessel was thoroughly 

 scrubbed, and the vestiges of two months' "gurry" removed in as many hours. Then the course 

 was laid for Saint Pierre, and away we sailed. On the 2d of October we called at Saint Pierre. 

 During the afternoon of that day we encountered a heavy gale between Saint Pierre and Scatari, 

 the southeastern point of Cape Breton Island. At first we ran before the fierce gale, but finally 

 were forced to "lie to;" we arrived at Arichat on the 4th. We ran to Guysborough the next 

 morning for a short call, thence, on Monday, October G, to Halifax. From Halifax we ran to 

 Gloucester, and, delayed by dead calms when little more than 100 miles from home, finally worked 

 in toward the land, made our way up the harbor, and anchored off the wharf belonging to the 

 owners of the vessel on the morning of October 12. For convenience I have prepared the following 

 condensed tabulated statement of the various movements of the vessels during the entire cruise: 



CALENDAR OF THE CRUISE. 



Date. 



July 12 to 17 



July 17 to 20 



July 20 to 21 



July21 to 23 



July23 to 25 



July 25 to 20 



July 26 to August 7 



August 7to9 



August 9 to ] 1 



August 11 to 13 



August 13 to 14 



August It to 20 



August 20 to 31 



August 31 to September 6. 



September 6 to 9 



Septembers to 11 



September 11 to 13 



September 13 to 29 



September 29 to October 2 . 



October2to4 



October4 to 6 



OctoberCtoS 



Octobers to 12 



Movements of vessel. 



From Gloucester, Mass., to Guysborough, Nova Scotia. 



Stay at Guysborongh. 



To Arichat, Cape Breton Island, and stay. 



Aricbat to Capo Broyle. Newfoundland. 



Stay at Cape Broylo. 



Cape Broyle to Station 1, north 40 39', wist 50 37'. 



First baiting. Anchored in various places on Banks. 



To Saint John's (Fresh-\Vater Cove), Newfoundland. 



Saint John's to Tor Bay, Newfoundland. 



Tor Bay to Carbonear, Newfoundland. 



Carbonear to King's Cove, Newfoundland. 



King's Cove to Open Hall, Newfoundland, and stay. 



Open Hall to latitude 4j 4', longitude 50 33', and stay. Second baiting. 



To Cape Broyle and stay. 



Cape Broyle to Bay of Bulls, Newfoundland, and stay. 



Bay of Bulls to Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, and stay. 



Portugal Cove to Grand Banks, latitude 45 12', longitude 51. 



Third baiting. 



To Saint Pierre. 



Saint Pierre to Arichat. 



To Guysborough from Arichat, and stay. 



Gnysborongh to Halifax. 



Halifax to Gloucester; arriving at Gloucester at 3 a. m. 



