Woods on French cleared /and.

Bedeque Ba y.

Bruden e/l River.

C ascump ec.

Timber exports.

Wood used in smoking fish.

every tree which is cut down in the forest opens to the sun a new spot of earth, which, with cultivation, will produce food for man and beast [p. 1461

DISCOVERY AN D SETTLEMENT

The French settlements round Hillsburgh Bay on what now forms the townships, N“ 49, 50, 57, and 58, were also considerable and extended from the mouth of the harbour to Point Prim, both sides of which being a very fine piece of land, and also part of lot 60 appear to have been occupied; the quantity of cleared land in this district was very considerable, though a great part of it is now again grown up with wood;

Townships 25, 26, 27, and 28, between the two first lies the fine harbour of Bedeque or Dunk River ; the lands in all these Townships are remarkably good and well timbered. [pp. 150-51]

. on the point between Brudnell and Montague Rivers [during the French period] there seems to have been about 200 acres of cleared land. [p. 1521

Township No. 5. In 1786 a fishery was established on this Township, and in the course of a few years several vessels were built, a saw—mill was erected and a considerable quantity of timber exported, but little or nothing was done towards peopling or cultivating the soil [p. 205]

. our articles of export now consist of some timber to Newfoundland, and occasionally a few cargoes of squared timber to Great Britain; a few people are also engaged in ship building which are generally sold in Newfoundland: this is a business which will probably be carried on to a great extent, should the Newfoundland fisheries revive on the restoration of the peace, as the great plenty of timber in several districts

. will enable us to build at a much cheaper rate, than they can do in Newfoundland, where the timber is now generally at such a distance from the harbours as to make it very expensive. [pp. 243-44]

not one twentieth of the lands which have been granted in the Province thirty years ago are yet cleared and cultivated [p.259]

Besides what may be exported salt, great quantities [of herring] might be smoaked, or cured red, for which there is a great demand in the United States; the wood necessary for smoaking herrings will cost little more than the trouble of cutting it down and carrying it to the curing houses [p. 293]