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ner for a confiderable while, till it becomes a trans- 

 parent fkin ; and let it be made ever lb thin, even 

 fa as to be fit for making into waiftecoats and 

 breeches, it is always exceffive ftrong and mufket- 

 proof. There are of them eighteen feet long and 

 nine broad ; it is affirmed that tjiere is nothing ex- 

 ceeds it for covering coaches. 



There have been two porpoife fifheries lately fet 

 up below Quebec, one in the bay of St. Paul, and 

 the other feven or eight leagues lower down, oppo- 

 fite to a habitation called Camourafca^ from certain 

 rocks, rifing to a confiderable height above water. 

 The expence is no great affair, and the profits would 

 be confiderable, were the porpoifes animals haunt- 

 ing particular parts ; but whether from inflincl or 

 caprice, they always find means to break all the 

 meafures of the fi mermen, and to take a different 

 rout from that where they are expected. Befides 

 thefe fimeries, which only enrich particular perfons, 

 occafion a general outcry among the people, which 

 is owing to their having caufed a confiderable di- 

 minution in the fifhery for eels, an article of great 

 benefit to the poor. For the porpoifes finding them- 

 felves diflurbed below Quebec, have retired elfe- 

 ^vhere, and the eels no longer finding thofe large 

 fifhes in their way, fwim down the river without 

 any hindrance ; from whence it is, that between 

 Quebec and the Three Rivers, where prodigious 

 quantities of them were caught formerly, there are 

 now none caught at all. 



The way of fifhing for the porpoife is little dif- 

 ferent from that I laft mentioned with refpedt to the 

 fea-wolf : when the tide is out, they plant pretty 

 near each other in the mud or fand flakes to which 

 they tie nets in the form of a .pouch the opening 



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