A History of the Island of Newfoundland: Containing a Description of the Island, the Banks, the Fisheries and Trade of Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador

author, 1819 - Labrador (N.L.) - 512 pages

Reverend Lewis Amadeus Anspach arrived in Newfoundland in 1799 as a magistrate and missionary, and promptly began collecting facts on Newfoundland's circumstances, interests, history, and laws. Anspach maintained a journal containing this information for the 13 years he was on the island, and in 1818 was persuaded to write this book as so little was known about the colony in the rest of the world.

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CHAPTER I	1

Their extreme distress in that islandand return	3

His example is followed by France	7

Wild vineMarthas VineyardIsle of Bacchus	14

VeniceJohn Cabot	15

CHAPTER II	23

Voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot to Newfound	25

Remarks of Purchas Sir William Monson c	32

Premature attempt to establish a college in Saint Johns	228

Curious trial	234

Change there in the civil and ecclesiastical state	240

Loss of the Lady Hobart packet and arrival of	247

Second attempt respecting the native Indians	254

CHAPTER XII	277

Extraordinary structure of the island and banks	283

Outer or False BankGreat BankOther banks	284

Gaspar de Corte Real in 1501	38

Rapid increase of the British Newfoundland fisheries	54

Increase of the fisheries	55

Sir Humphrey Gilberts second voyage in 1583	60

Supposed discovery of mines of iron silver c	66

Chauvin in 1600 and 1601 Canadian trade	74

Manner of proceeding in this fishery	75

Samuel Champlain takes a part in the quarrels of	81

Wynnes and Powells accounts of the state of cultiva	87

Failure of an attempt against Placentia	92

France aims at the possession of all North America	98

RearAdmiral Mark MilbankeCourt of Common	110

CHAPTER VI	112

CHAPTER VII	120

Resolution of parliament respecting that island in 1707	129

Sir Charles HardyLord Rodney	150

War with Spain in 1762	157

Coast of Labrador annexed to the government of New	173

Sir Roger Curtis Note	186

CHAPTER X	204

Treaties of 1783with America and with France	211

Mode of making sealoilBlubber	219

CHAPTER XI	221

Difference in length of the voyages to and fro between	291

Coast of LabradorHistorySeals and dogs	326

CHAPTER XIII	334

Winter in Newfoundland	347

Mode of opening a passage for vessels through the ice	354

Kitchen gardens	360

Trees Newfoundland coffins	366

Labradorstone	373

Essential differences between the Greenland and	384

Codfish	399

OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES	409

Uses of the seal to Greenlanders and to Europeans	417

Mode of preparing sealskins	426

Codseines	433

Bankfishery	439

CHAPTER XVI	448

Artful and revengeful not numerous indolent	452

As described by CabotBroughtonJames Cartier	459

of fish dietOf the constant use of teaSprucebeer	466

Festivals of Saint George and Saint Patrick	472

Religious professions	478

nineteenth century as when first discovered	487

Ordinance of Louis XIV concerning the	503

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Title	A History of the Island of Newfoundland: Containing a Description of the Island, the Banks, the Fisheries and Trade of Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador
Author	Lewis Amadeus Anspach
Publisher	author, 1819
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	15 Dec 2008
Length	512 pages

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