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may be said of both sectaries that, being unenlightened by knowledge and misled by delusion, animated by party spirit, and carried away by a religious-like zeal, they seem to vie with each other in the wildness and absurdity of their opinions and practices, and they seem to breathe fire and vengeance against each other and against everybody else. “Let us turn our eyes” from these wandering stars and quit these fire brands of contention to look after the harmless and useful inhabitants of the great deep, which do mankind much good and no evil. In this heterogeneous piece I shall tack a short account of the average amount of the shad taken in Cornwallis yearly:
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Amount of Shad caught in Habitants River :
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| Year. | | Amount. | | | 1789 | | 120,000 | | | 1790 | | 70,000 | |
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N. B. — I have fished on them.
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2 years with a seine in Hab. River, yearly average, 95,000. Began to fish Canard River in the year 1787, caught in
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| 1787 | upwards of | 100,000 | | | 1788 | " | 100,000 | | | 1789 | about | 70,000 | | | 1790 | " | 70,000 | |
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Canard River yearly average,
85,000
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Yearly average of ye Creeks taken by wires
25,000
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Was planted in Cornwallis River 90 a seine, but did
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not succeed well. Caught about
15,000
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This one is not likely to succeed, as the force of the
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current is too great for the seine. But on a
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moderate calculation there is upwards of
200,000
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150 ordinary shad fill a barrel, not salted, 15 shillings; salted, L1 5 shillings.
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The codfishery might also be much more productive could it be more attended to. For tho' the settlers all alongshore, from the mouth to the head of the Bay, go out to fish by times, yet few make a business of it. They have got their farms to attend to. I could not possibly give a guess at the amount of the codfishery in the Bay; and I don't know that any individual here can. The cod suit exceedingly for export, but the shad don't; most of the shad, therefore, are consumed at home, and a great benefit they are; new settlers and
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