2i8 Some Hew Voyages 



Commonly, there comes thirty or forty Ships 

 from France to Tlacentla every year, and fometimes 

 fixty. Some come with intent to fifh, and others 

 have no other defign than to truck with the Inha- 

 bitants, who live in the Summer time on the other 

 fide of the Fort. The ground upon which their Hou- 

 fes ftand, is call'd La grand Grave, for in effect, they 

 have nothing but Gravel to fpread their Cod-fifli 

 upon, in order to have ? em dry'd by the Sun after 

 they are faked. The Inhabitants and the French Fifher- 

 men,fend their Sloops every day two Leagues off the 

 Port to purfue the Fifhery ; and fometimes the Sloops 

 return fo over-loaded, that they are in a manner bu- 

 ry'd in the Water. You cannot imagine how deep 

 they fink, and 'tis impoffible you fhould believe it, 

 unlefs youfawit. The Fifhery commences in the 

 beginning of June, and is at an end about the mid- 

 dle of Auguft. In the Harbour they catch a little 

 fort of a fifh, which they put upon their Hooks as a 

 bait for the Cod. 



Tlacentia is in great want of Gravel, which oc- 

 cafions the thinnefs of the Inhabitants. If the Go- 

 vernors prefer'd the King s Service to Avarice, they 

 might make it a confiderable Poft, and a great ma- 

 ny would make gravel Walks at their own charge ; 

 but as long as the Governour s prey upon the for- 

 tunes of private Men, under the fair pretence of 

 the King's Service^ which is always in their Mouths, 

 I can't fee that this Settlement will ever be in- 

 larg'd or improv'd. Do's not the Governour dif- 

 grace his Prince 3 and fink the character of his Poft, 

 in turning Fiflierman, Merchant, Vintner, and act- 

 ing in the way of a thoufand meaner and more 

 Mechanical Trades ? Is not this a piece of Tyran- 

 ny? To force the Inhabitants to buy what Goods 

 they want, out of fuch and fuch a Ship, and to fell 

 their Cod to fuch other Ships as the Governour is 

 interefs'd in, and that as a principal Owner : To 



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