Drawings from an early illusfration showing the Newfoundland cod-fishery. 



which dressed and dried be sold for ten shilHngs a hundred. 

 ... if a man work but three days in seven, he may get more 

 than he can spend unless he will be exceedingly excessive. 

 What sport doth yield a more pleasing content, and less hurt 

 and charge, than angling with a hook and crossing the sweet 

 air from isle to isle over the silent streams of a calm sea, 

 wherein the most curious may find profit, pleasure and con- 



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