Note 86 — Chapter XX
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Speaking of the fishery in St. John harbor, Captain Glasier writes, under date December 15, 1764, “The Bass is ketcht in Weirs just under the Point below the Fort,” that is on the Carleton side of the harbor, and in the next sentence he goes on to identify this point or neck of land with that adjoining Fort Frederick. “The Cod Fish,” he says, “strikes in here a month sooner than at Cape Sable shore & goes off a month sooner; you ketch the Fish a league within the mouth of the Harbour and quite up to the Island [Navy Island] near the Point of Land I have asked for.”