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Red Bay, August 4! 



' Seven hundred and fifty quintals, two codseines ; from twenty to forty 

 cfuintals per boat, two hands ; one codseinc, one hundred quintals. Sal- 

 mon plenty in sea nets, and all along as far as Venison Tickle. Bait 

 plenty. 



Cremaillere Bay, Nfld., August 5. 



Cod-fishery good with hook and line ; salmon plenty. Four English 

 families. No French rooms for nine years. Herring plenty. All well. 

 No complaints. French fishery bad with codseine.^ in different harbours 

 around. No end of icebergs; counted one hundred and twelve one day. 



Canada Bay, August 17. 



Inglee Cove—Thivty to forty quintals per boat ; seventy tierces of sal- 

 mon, all told. Bait plentiful, good prospects of fish. Herring coming 

 in. Twenty English families here. Nearest French rooms— Canada 

 Harbor one ; Cat's Cove one. ^ ' 



Hilliard Harbor. 



No French room here now. Left Canada Bay 11.30 a.m., August 17th; 

 for St. John's, 



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