note: transcription publicly contributed - please contact us with comments, errors or omisions

I shall make a Return when I Come to Halifax or Probably Before, one Circumstance has been much in there favour this winter, the River has afforded them a quantity of smelts which they take by cuting a hole in the Ice and with a short line & hook, they draw up [?numbers], This Providential Relief never has happened Before this winter ~ nor known by any of the Inhabitants that those fish Resorted the Harbour in the winter season __

I am with Respect
Sir
your Most Humble Servant
Edward Irish

Micheal Wallace Esquire
Halifax