■ 22 he says: "Malpeck and Three Rivers have the advantage of every other place for shipping and fishing. The sea cow fishery walrus cannot sum out as well by all accounts as at the where they are in great plenty. Here they seldom or never come on shore, but are now and then killed in the spring, by the inhabitants in their canoes, when they happen to float too near the shore on pieces of ice, which sometimes is the case. I saw one since I was last out surveying, about two years old, on the coast of . The fishery of seals I have directed Lieutenant Robinson to inquire into." Only one breach of discipline is recorded at this time, for which John Had ¬ dock, soldier in the 60th Regiment , was by order of Captain Holland tried by court martial. The court was composed of Lieutenant Burns , President, Lieutenant Pringle and Ensign Merriweather. The prisoner had charge of Mr. Wright 's instruments, and was ordered by the latter to go about a mile for some parts of them, when he replied, "D-n his blood if he would," or words to that purpose. When put on his defence he acknowledged his crime. The court found him guilty and sentenced him "to receive four hundred lashes with a cat of nine tails"; on application of Mr. Wright in favour of the prisoner the sentence was reprieved; so ended this court on the 16th July, 1765, most likely the first held in the Island under British rule. On the 4th October the survey had made such good progress that Captain Holland was able to send by Lieutenant Robinson to the authorities in England , on large and small maps, plans of St. John and a complete plan of the Mag¬ dalenes, besides a set of plans of the settled parts of Canada . Captain Holland seems to have been on intimate terms with the Duke of Richmond , having lived with Governor Carleton at his Grace's. The Duke was very anxious to get a moose from Canada ; Captain Holland writes at this time to him: "Concerning the moose-deer, I have given all the necessary orders and directions to procure them for your Grace, but have not yet been able to succeed. Mr. Robinson , the bearer of this, will deliver to you a foetus of a sea calf, looked upon even in this part of the world as a great curiosity, and which I hope may be acceptable to your Grace." At Captain Holland had the misfortune to lose on the 16th December, one of his assistants, Lieutenant Frederick Haldimand , "who was drowned by the breaking in of the ice when sounding." He was a nephew of Major-General Haldimand , who was afterwards Governor of Canada and ¬ mander-in-Chief of the Forces. He speaks of him being in the twenty-fourth year of his age, a most accomplished mathematician, and that he had "not only lost a friend," but his "principal assistant in astronomy, in which he had made surprising progress." He was a Lieutenant on half pay, when he was engaged in the survey, and had served since the age of fifteen in America, where he had distinguished himself on many occasions during the last war. His report on the , and the sea-cow fishing is very interesting and full of information. Captain Holland was evidently much affected by this young officer's premature death, and frequently refers to it in his letters. It was not until the spring following that Captain Holland heard of the arrival of his plans in England . Secretary Pownal writes, May 19 (1766):