STURGEON. 



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management of the grain, by the Charge 

 d'Affaires of the Colony, in the dearth of pro- 

 visions ; and from the supply which we have 

 received from Bas la Rivtere. The sturgeon 

 season also has been very successful, which 

 has in some measure brightened the coun- 

 tenances of a people, who have passed a long 

 and severe winter, without " the sound of the 

 mill stones, and the light of the candle" 



