to North- America. 



appropriate to himfelf the Rigging and Tackle of 

 the Ships that are caft away upon theCoaft, to flop 

 the Crew of Merchantmen for his own Fifhery, to 

 fell Habitations or Settlements, toftifle the bidding 

 up for Effects fold by way of Audion that he may in- 

 grofsthem by his fole Authority,to change the Pfovi- 

 lions laid up in Magazines for his Majefty's Troop s, 

 to carry off the good Biskuit and put bad in the 

 room of it, to make fo much Beef and Bacon for 

 the fubfiftance of the Garrifon, to force the Inha- 

 bitants to fend their Servants and Carpenters to 

 fome work, in which his Majefiy's Service is lefs 

 concerned than his own Pocket : Thefe, I fay, are 

 things that I take to be plain infractions of the Or- 

 ders iifued forth by Lewis the XIV. Thefe are a- 

 bules that muft be rcdrefs'd, if we would have the 

 King to be well ferv'd ; And yet there's nothing 

 done in it. For my part, I am unacquainted with the 

 reafon of the delay ; thofe that have a mind to know, 

 had beft ask the Deputies of Monfieur de P * * *. 

 I am fully perfwadedj that all thefe Pyracies do not 

 come to the King's Ear, for he's too juft to fuffer 

 'em. 



To conclude ; Placentia bears neither Corn, nor 

 Rie, nor Peafe, for the Soil is good for nothing j 

 not to mention, that if it were as good and as fer- 

 tile as any in Canada, yet no body would give them- 

 felves the trouble to cultivate it ; for one Man earns 

 more in Cod-fifliing in one Summer, than ten would 

 do in the way of Agriculture. In the great Bay of 

 Tlacentia,. there are fome little Harbours, ( befides 

 that of the Fort ) which the Bifcay Fifermen re- 

 fort to. Such are the little and the great Burin y St, 

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