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unless managed different from what what she has been heretofore; one anchor & chain, the Kedge & Hawson, the Standing rigging, blocks [Camboose to?] had better be shipped to Halifax. If the cargo is sold where it lies and you feel disposed to purchase for the establishment you will be safe at the following prices. Herring, say 600 bbls @ 2/6. Salmon say 20 bbls & [pierces?] @ 10/. Oil say 120 bbls and hhds @ 20/. per cask. Codfish say 189 Drums and 150 gtls in bulk 5/ for the whole. Cable and Anchor lying burried in the sand 20/. Hull and spar 5/. but before you purchase you had better be sure of a vessel to take them off. And they can be shipped in April as well as at any other time but if possible, the oil should go sooner. I did intend to haul the oil to the Eastern Station but we have had so much work for our horses at getting wood for the shipwrecked crew and travelling to and from the Eastern Station attending the crippled men that we could not do it and besides it would be a severe task for man and beast to work on the NE bar in winter weather.
Respecting the station at the foot of the lake I should llike to have a more respectable family there than any of the six who have applied for it, so soon as Stevens leaves I will send two men there to attend the stock repair fences to and if I get an application from a suitable family I will acquaint you of it. I have our men making shingles, sawing lumber and dressing a stove [forme?] and I now forward a list of nails tools so required. The carpenters brought
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