OPERATIONS DURING THE FISHING SEASON. 233 with the fish to the respective merchants. The last fish brought home by the vessels being, like that sent in the autumn from Labrador , green, is discharged, on its arrival, into vats, or troughs, attached to the stages, and the salt washed off, when it is thrown on the stage, and piled into a water-horse to drain, before drying. The fish cured in the northerly parts of Labrador , is chiefly prepared in the cold dry air. The western fishery, carried forward on the west coast of Newfoundland , is also, by treaty, abandoned to the French. Whenever the planter settles his account in the fall with his merchant, and pays the wages of his servants, he prepares for winter, laying in provi¬ sions, &c, and in the following spring he resumes the same laborious course of employment that occu¬ pied him during the preceding year.