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EOUOE ilARROR, July 3. 



At' this place is tlie largest French establishment on the nortli-east 

 coast. They have eiglit rooms, employing about three hundred men. 

 One vessel has not yet arrived ; no cod to speak of yet. No English 

 here except the guardian of the French rooms. 



Croc Harbor, July 3. 



si There are two French rooms here this year. The ice is reprcscmted as 



liaving been unusually lieavy this year. The master of a French banker 

 told me he was twenty-six days in the ice on his way out. No Engiisli 

 I i 'jisl; liere except the guardian of the French rooms. 



FiSIIOT ISLAXDS, July 5. 



A very late season. Thn-ee French rooms this year. Five Engiisli 

 families ; the French had compelled one of them to take up their salmon 

 nets. No cod yet. . 



Southern Brook, Hare Bay, July 5. 



Came here, as I was told that the French were fishing the river, but 

 there is no one here yet. A small river and good anchorage. 



Cremaillere Harbor, July G. 

 No French. Two EDglish families. Plenty of salmon, but no cod. 



St. Anthony's Harbor, July G. 



Only two French rooms this year, and no fishing yet. There are four- 

 teen or fifteen English families ; but the French do not allow them to 

 settle on the sites of the old Freach rooms, of which there are five. 

 Yesterday the French captain of the rooms ordered all the English to 

 take up their salmon nets, producing some paper which, he said, was his 

 authority. I was appealed to, and said that any nets that were in the 



