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Chap. XI. 



difcover'd. The late Lord Haltemore took accidentally a piece of Oar up that lay 

 there upon the furfacc of the Earth, and brought it with him into England, which 

 was found upon trial to yield a greater proportion of Silver, than the Oar of Totofi 

 in the Weft-Indies , but hitherto no Mine of it hath been difcover'd there. 



The Trade of Fifhing being of fo great concernment to the Nation of England , 

 the fame (if it be well manag'd in this Ifland of Terra TS{pVa) will employ every 

 year above two hundred Sail of Englift) Ships, and ten thoufand Mariners, befides 

 the great benefit which may accrue unto the Nation by Impofition upon Strangers 

 there, which would amount to feveral thoufands of Pounds per Annum ; with which 

 thofe Coafts may be Guarded, and Ships Trading thither fecur'd : befides the great 

 Cuftoms by the Ships call'd The Sacks (being commonly in great numbers every 

 year) who carry Fifh from Newfound Land into the Straights, France, (Portugal, and 

 Spain, and who bring their Returns into England, as Bullion, and all other native 

 Commodities of thofe Countreys. 



If the Ifland were well fortifi'd, we might Command all thofe of other Nations 

 that com° ~. • Fifh in T{ew- found Land, to pay Contribution in Fifh or other wife, for 

 their Priviledge to Fifh there, the faid Ifland being firft Planted by Englift?, and per- 

 taining to the Kingdom of England $ or ifoccafion fliould require, they might be 

 utterly debarr'd of Fifliing there. 



The Trade of Fifhing is of fo great concernment to France, Spain, Portugal, the 

 Straights, and other Parts, that they cannot well be without that yearly Supply 

 in Fifh which comes from that Ifland : Neither can the Hollanders, Spaniards, or 

 Portuguefe, well fet any Ships to the Weft-Indies, without Newfound Land Fifh, there 

 being none that will endure to pafs the Line found and untainted, but the Fifh of 

 that Countrey, falted and dry'd there. And fo long as the A& continues ftill in 

 force, That no Fifh be Tranfported from the faid Ifland, but in Englijh Bottoms, it 

 will contribute very much to our encreafe of Shipping there, and by confequence, 

 of the employment of Mariners ; and the Fifhing of that part of the Ifland will 

 be folely appropriated to the Englijh Nation, to whom of right it belongs, which 

 will prove the greateft Ballance of Trade in that part of the World . and 

 that whereas above two hundred Sail do Trade thither yearly to Fifh , if a 

 thoufand Sail come, if there be but Fifher*men enow, they may all have Fraughtage 

 there. 



The French, if once the Ifland be fortifi'd, will be depriv'd of their Nurfery of 

 Mariners, this being the onely place, befides Canada, and one or two adjacent Coafts, 

 where they come for fupply of Fifh, with which that Nation cannot be furnifh'd 

 fo well from other Parts. 



By well Planting and Fortifying New-found Land, the Trading to Virginia, 2{eT> 

 England, and thofe Parts, would be much encouraged, 2^ew England having had of 

 late great Traffick with New-found Land, where they vend the Growth of their 

 Plantation. Befides, 2{ew-found Land is a Key to the Gulf of Qanada, which if the 

 fijg/i/7?had again in their poffeflion, as they had in the Years 1628. and 1632. they 

 might give a Law to all foreign Kings and People interefted in any of the parts of 

 jimerka, and aProte&ion to all the Englijh Plantations upon that Continent,where* 

 by great fecurity, comfort and profit would arifc to the Nation and People of it : 

 whereas on the contrary, if the French, Spanijh, or Dutch, fhould pofTefs themfelves 

 of the faid Plantation, they would not onely deprive this Nation of all the Ad- 

 vantages aforefaid, but would alfo derive to themfelves fo great a Power to preju- 

 dice all the Plantations of the Coafts of America belonging to this Nation, that the 

 Inconveniences thereof arc fcarceto be imagin'd or exprefs'd. 



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