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March 7.-Wind S., with constant snow. At 10 A. M., having come up to the islands opposite Rushy Pond Marsh, we found a wigwam on one of them where the natives had lived last summer. At 1 P.M. put up on the north side, about three miles above our fireplace of January 18, and distant from the Indian Dock nine miles. Very heavy fall of snow. Killed five partridges.

March 8.-Strong NE. gales, with constant snow and drift; no possibility of hauling. One of the party received so violent a contusion on the shoulder as to render his arm useless, by a tree having fallen on him. The snow this day fell ten inches.

March 9.-Wind W. and blowing hard, with severe weather, rendering it unsafe to proceed . .

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March 10.-Strong gales, with constant snow, and very sharp weather, which continued throughout the day, with considerable drift.

March 11.-Wind W. with clear sharp weather At 7 A.M. recommenced our journey. This morning four of our party were frost-burnt. The hauling proved heavy, from the late snow and drift. At 2 P.M. put up on the north side, two miles below the Badger Bay Brook, and fourteen miles from our last night's sleeping-place.

March 12.-Cloudy weather; wind W. At 8 o'clock passed Badger Bay Brook. At noon Hodges Hills bore ENE. two leagues. At 2 P.M. put up on the north side, about half a mile below the waterfall (which we had passed on January 21), and sixteen miles from our last resting-place.

March 13.-Strong gales from ENE., and constant snow and sleet. At 7 A.M. crossed over and ascended the waterfall on the south side; hauled the sledges through some Indian paths; found several places in the skirts of the woods that had been recently dug up, where something must have been concealed, for the vacuums were lined with birch rind. At 10 A.M. we came up to the storehouse mentioned on January 22; the poles that were then seen in the ice still remained, but their position altered. This store was circular, and covered in with deer-skins; it was not so large.

as their wigwams. It was evident that the natives had been here since our passing down in the former journey; they had taken all the prime venison away, and had left nothing but a few inferior haunches, and a number of paunches, which were frozen firmly together; but many of these had, notwithstanding, been removed for the purpose of digging up one part of the ground, where it formed a place somewhat longer than necessary for containing arrows; it is probable that it held arrows, darts, and other implements used by them in killing deer. I was surprised to find that the skins covering in that part of the store fronting the river and the inland side, were perforated with many arrows; this circumstance led me to conclude that they had come down in their canoes, and that some of them had taken a station on the bank, and had shot their arrows at the store, to ascertain whether we might not be concealed in it. Seeing that they had acted with such cautious suspicion, and considering it as betraying an inclination for resistance, made me abandon any further pursuit. Leaving several red shirts in the storehouse, as an exchange for such venison as we could take, I returned to our last night's fireplace, not feeling myself warranted to run any further risk. It continued to snow, hail, and sleet, the whole of this day.

March 14.-Wind W. At 9 A.M. set out on our return down the river, the hauling very heavy, from the sleet and snow that had fallen yesterday. At 2 P. M. halted for the night, having travelled nine miles. Found John Weatheral deranged in mind.

March 15.-Wind SW. At daylight renewed our march: halted two miles below Badger Bay Brook, at our fireplace of the 11th instant. Found it necessary to have a guard over John Weatheral.

March 16.-Wind N., with pleasant weather and good hauling. At 2 o'clock halted at the sleeping-place of the 9th instant, three miles from Rushing Pond Marsh.

March 17.-Moderate, with snow. At 11 o'clock reached the upper part of the great waterfall; hauled the sledges to the further end of the path, and put up at the sleeping-place of the 6th instant, called Indian Dock.

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March 18.-Wind from the westward, with clear frosty weather; at noon heavy hauling; at dark reached Upper Sandy Point, and put up for the night at Mr. Millar's upper salmon station; the distance from the waterfall to this is reckoned twenty miles.

March 19.-Fresh breezes and clear frosty weather. At 9 o'clock set out, and at 11 arrived on board the schooner, and found all well.

APPENDIX VI.

THE following extract is from the note of Lord Palmerston of July 10, 1838, to Count Sebastiani, the French ambassador," and is copied from 'The Journal of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland' for 1857.

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I now proceed to answer that part of your Excellency's note which relates to the conflicting opinions that are entertained as to the true interpretation of the declaration annexed to the treaty of September 3, 1783, and in which your Excellency urges the British Government to disavow the claim of British subjects to a right of fishery upon the coasts in question, concurrent with the right of the subjects of France.

And in the first place, I beg to observe that it does not appear to the British Government that either your Excellency's representation, or that of your predecessor, has shown that any specific grievance has been sustained by French subjects, in consequence of the doubts which are said to be entertained upon this question, so as to prove that there is any pressing necessity for the call which the French Government makes in this respect upon that of Great Britain.

But the British Government is, nevertheless, willing to enter into an amicable examination of the matter, with a view to set those doubts at rest, although it is my duty to say that the British Government are not prepared, according to the view which they at present take of the matter, to concede the point in question.

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The right of fishing on the coast of Newfoundland was assigned to French subjects by the King of Great Britain in the Treaty of Peace of 1783, to be enjoyed by them as they had the right to enjoy that which was assigned to them by the Treaty of Utrecht.'

But the right assigned to French subjects by the Treaty of Utrecht was to catch fish and to dry them on land,' within the district described in the said treaty, subject to the condition not to erect any buildings' upon the island besides stages made of boards, and huts necessary and usual for drying of fish,' and not to resort to the said island beyond the time necessary for fishing and drying of fish.'

A declaration annexed to the treaty of 1783, by which the right assigned to French subjects was renewed, contains an engagement that in order that the fishermen of the two nations may not give a cause for daily quarrels, His Britannic Majesty would take the most positive measures for preventing his subjects from interrupting, in any manner, by their competition, the fishery of the French during the temporary exercise of it, which was granted to them,' and that His Majesty would for this purpose cause the fixed settlements which should be found there to be removed.'

A counter declaration stated that the King of France was satisfied with the arrangement concluded in the above terms. The treaty of peace of 1814 declares that the French right 'of fishery at Newfoundland is replaced upon the footing upon which it stood in 1792.'

In order, therefore, to come to a right understanding of the question, it will be necessary to consider it with reference to historical facts, as well as with reference to the letter of the declaration of 1783; and to ascertain what was the precise footing upon which the French fishery actually stood

in 1792.

Now, it is evident that specific evidence would be necessary, in order to show the construction which the French Government now desire to put upon the declaration of 1783 is the interpretation which was given to that declaration at the period when the declaration was framed; and when the

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