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cautions and the known alertnefs of the French on 

 any fudden alarm, haye diflieartened the Indians, 

 that of late, defpairing of iiiccefs, they feem to have 

 defifted from their pilfering pradices. 



The manner of the Englifh fifhery on the bays 

 of the eaft coaft of Nev/ibiindland, is carried on 

 in the fame manner as that of the French before 

 defcribed and whether it be that the great bank lies 

 neareft, or that its bottom is fuch as this fi(h moft 

 delights in and where confequently it is more nu- 

 merous than in the weilern parts, that nation chofe 

 thefe parts preferably to the others, as the French, 

 do not frequent the weilern parts io much as the 

 Petit Nord. 



The frpfts being fet in, laid our fquadron under 

 a neceflity of haftening out of this bay, which it 

 left on the 21ft of November, with the veflTels un- 

 der its convoy and in the offing was joined by 

 many others, fo as in the whole to form a fleet of 

 betwixt fixty and fixty-five {hip§ of all fizes : and 

 among thefe were two frigates of forty guns, who 

 had continued cruifing in thefe parts to fecure the 

 fifhery againft any attempts of the French privateers. 

 Our voyage to England afforded nothing remark- 

 able ; and on the morning of the iid of December, 

 the fquadron anchored in Plymouth-found, except 

 the Sunderland, which kept pn her courfe with a con- 

 fiderable part of the convoy, and at three in the after- 

 noon came to an anchor in Dartmouth-road. 



Whilst our fquadron lay at Newfoundland ; and 

 in the paflage to England, it met with feveral 

 ftorms, which I (hall fpecify in order to convey fome 

 idea of what may be expeded in thefe feas. On the 

 3d of November, the wind blowing freJOh at W. and 

 with all the appearances of a violent ftorm, the 

 wind abated and the weather cleared up. But oa 

 the tenth of the fame month we had a ftorm at N.W. 

 Jafting from two in the afternoon, till two the ne:;t 



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