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ported ^mountSj commmiibus annis^ to about 

 35,,000cwt. of codfish, 5000 of salmon, and from 

 10 to 12,000 of herrings, pilchards, and mackarel ; 

 to this may be added the produce of some 

 whales caught in Gaspe Bay, a trifling trade in 

 peltry, and the building of one ship and three 

 or four small vessels annually. The fisheries 

 are sedentary, but the exportations and im- 

 portations usually employ eight or nine square- 

 rigged vessels, and about thirty-five small ones. 

 Agriculture meets with only a secondary atten- 

 tion, and the produce of it at present does not 

 much, if at all, overbalance the consumption. 

 The timber consists of spruce fir, white and 

 black birch, beech, elm, and pine, fit for mast- 

 ing of small dimensions, with some oak of a 

 very inferior quahty. The town of New Car- 

 lisle, the principal one, is situated in Coxe 

 township, and laid out in a manner that here- 

 after it may become a compact and regular 

 little place : the position of it is nearly central 

 from each extremity of the Bay of Chaleurs ; and 

 the number of houses is from forty to fifty, all 

 of wood : it has a church, a court-house, and a 

 gaol ; the tvv^o latter are now building, under the 

 superintendance of commissioners appointed 

 by an act of parliament. The situation is very 

 healthy, and the surrounding lands some of the 

 most fertile of the district. From the town nu- 



