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Here they also report a poor year for cod. Salmon fair. I went up 

 the Pinwarc river for about two miles ; it appeared to me to be a very 

 fine river : I think the largest I have seen. It is said to be very long, and 

 I was told ran to Quebec. There is some steel sand in the river that is 



ii •- said to be valuable. 



•Cahtwiiigiit Harboii, SAND^ticii 13ay, August 4. 



Left Black Bay on the 3rd, and the weather being very fine and clear. 

 I thought it better to go north at ojicc and work southward. At five 

 r. M. I anchored here. 



Sandwich Bay is an important salmon fishery, and there is a room here 



tused by the Hudson Bay Company. The fishery is now ended liere, and 



the manager told mo they had had a fair catch. I could not get much 



information, but I fancy they will get nearly eight hundred tierces of 



salmon, altogether. 



IIiNciiiNBROOK, Sandwich Bay, August 5. 



Eight a. M. .aichored in this Bay, which is here called Paradise. I 

 went about five miles op the river, which is a very large one. Tlicre are 

 two men fishing it, and they have caught between them about sixty 

 tierces. The salmon have almost done running, but the grilse are run- 

 ning freely. The fishermen are much annoyed by tlic seals robbing their 

 nets, and they are obliged to watch them the whole day long. 



Eagle Riveh, Saxda\*icii Bay, August 6. 



Anchored off" the mouth of this river and went up to the falls (almost 

 six miles from the anchorage). This is by far the most important river 

 I have seen, and in volume, I think, greater than Paradise river. To me 

 it looked, as it is, the perfection of a salmon river. The Hudson Bay 

 Company have a post here, and will get about one hundred tierces and 

 vtwenty thousand lbs. tinned salmon. But their catch was much injured 



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