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A History of the Island of Cape Breton With Some Account of the Discovery and Settlement of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland
A History of the Island of Cape Breton With Some Account of the Discovery and Settlement of Canada Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Author:Richard Brown General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: S. Low, son, and Marston Subjects: Cape Breton Nova Scotia Newfoundland Acadia Cape Breton Island (N.S.) Cape Breton Island (N.S.) History Nova Scotia History Newfoundland and Labrador History Newfoundland and Labrador Canada ... more » History / Canada / General Travel / Canada / Atlantic Provinces Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER III. 1548-1599. The long blank of forty years, dating from the Act of Edward VI., referred to near the end of my last letter, is followed, in Hakluyt's ' Collection,' by a letter from Anthony Parkhurst, a merchant of Bristol, dated November 13, 1578, to M. Richard Hakluyt, of the Middle Temple, i in reply to some enquiries made by the latter ' about the state and commodities of Newfoundland.' The document is too long for insertion here; so you must be satisfied with a few extracts relating to Cape Breton, and the. state of the fisheries, at that period. Parkhurst first gives an interesting account of the soil, climate, and productions of Newfoundland ; rather highly coloured, it is true (unless the country has changed frr the worse since his day), but nevertheless abounding in valuable information. He says he had made four voyages to Newfoundland, and ' had searched the harbours, creeks, and lands more than any other Englishman.' That there were generally more than 100 sail of Spaniards taking cod, and from twenty to thirty killing whales; fifty sail of Portuguese; 150 snil of French and Bretons, mostly very small; but of English only fifty sail. He accounts for the small proportion of English by the fact of a large trade being still carried on with Iceland. ' Nevertheless,' he ...« less