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NOTES TAKEN FROM MR. KNIGHTS CENSUS— 1874. 



Point Riciie. — Eight inhabitants. Light house erected by Canada. 



Port-aux-Choix.— »Forty-six inhabitants. Four French rooms, two at 

 Boat Cove and two at Savage Island ; and seven French vessels. 



St. John's Island. — Fifty-eight inhabitants. Five French rooms ; one 

 barque, one brigantine, three brigs, four schooners, about two hundred 

 and sixty men; seines and bultows. 



\\, New Ferrolle. — Twenty-seven inhabitants. Eight French brigs, two 



barques, seven schooners. Tiicse vessels have their rooms at Port-aux- 

 Choix and other places ; they follow the fish down the coast as far as 

 Flowers and Savage Coves. The people living on shore in tents; they 

 fish with bultows well o3' in the Straits, and are generally supplied with 

 bait from Lance-a-Loup and Pinware. 



Savage Cove. — Fifty inhabitants. About fifteen French vessels came 

 to this Cove from Port-aux-Choix in July, to fish with bultows, &c., re- 

 main till herring fishery is nearly over. 



Cape Norman. — Four inhabitants. Northern point of Newfoundland ; 

 Lighthouse erected by Canada. 



Western Head — Seven inhabitants. One French room, one brig, 

 seventy men ; catch this season — two thousand quintals. 



Noddy Bay. — Thirty-two inhabitants. Two French rooms, one barque, 

 one brig, about one hundred and twenty men ; catch about three thou- 

 sand quintals. 



Belle Isle North. — Five inhabitants. Lighthouse erected by Canada. 



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