THE FISHERIES. 997 
also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic 
Majesty’s dominions in America; and that the American fish- 
ermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the un- 
settled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Is!- 
ands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; 
but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it 
shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at 
the said settlement, without a previous agreement for that pur- 
pose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the 
ground.” 
Notwithstanding the absolute terms of this tr sai 
in regard to the question of peace, there survived on 
both sides so much of irritation, and so many points 
of mutual relation remained uncertain, that the treaty 
was in some respects little more than a truce. We 
had special cause to complain of the persistent occu- 
pation of northwestern posts by Great Britain, and its 
effect on the Indians within our lines. On the other 
hand, to say nothing of minor matters, when the wars 
of the French Revolution commenced, and the French 
Republic undertook to use our ports as the base of 
naval operations against Great Britain, the latter 
Power took umbrage of course; and it was only the 
firm attachment of President’ Washington to peace, 
which prevented these difficulties from fatally em- 
broiling the two countries, and which led to the con- 
clusion of the Treaty of December 19, 1794, as the 
similar spirit of President Grant led to the conclusion 
of the Treaty of Washington. 
During the next ten years, the United States labor- 
ed to maintain their neutrality in the presence of the 
universal war by land and sea which raged between 
the great European Powers. Both France and En- 
