Vinal Haven includes both North and South Fox Island is in Lat 44 Long 69, 10.
The inhabitants are generally healthy, industrious and hospitable to strangers the
people obtain most of their wealth and living by fishing they fit out annually over
one hundred licensed vessels beside many smaller crafts. The North Island
is 9 miles long 2 wide population 800, they have one post office, one store a Baptist
meeting house a small branch of the Baptist Church, four school houses and a grist mill
the Land is rather rocky and rough yet their are many good farms which produce
good wheat barley oats potatoes and grass. The principle timber is fir, spruce, hemlock
and birch. Rasp and goose bury^s grow in great abundance. Sheep are the principle
stock. South Fox Island comes as near being without any form or void
as any thing I ever saw, and it would be difficult for a historian to give a
description of it. It is about 10 miles long and 5 wide and is one universal mass of
rocks, much of it granit, formed into shelves, hills, hollows, cut up into nooks and points
and canions to make room for the coves an harbors, which run through and through the
Island pop 1000, they get their living entirely ^live^ by fishing their principle stock is sheep
I do not recollect of ever seeing a horse on eith[er] Island their is some small patches
under cultivation but it is at the expens of great labour and toil many from this Island
fish at New Foundland bring their fish home and dry them upon their own flakes, they supply
the market annually with a great amount of codfish, mackarell, and boxed herren, this
Island contains two stores, three tide saw mills, 6 school houses a small branch of the
methodist Church and a priest the timber is pine fir spruce hemlock and birch, also goose
bury, raspberies & whoretleburies and upland cramburies, grow upon the Island the bushes
and timber grows in a great measure out of the crack and cravices of the rocks
Their is a great amount of variety of fish inhabit the waters, coves, and harbors
around these Islands such as whale black fish, shark, ground shark, Pilot
fish, horse mackerel sturgeon, salmon, holloboat cod, Pollock, tom cod, hake,
haddock, mackarel, shad, bass, alewives, herren, Pohagen, Dolphin, whiting
Frostfish, Flounders, smelt, skate, shrimp, shid, cusk, bluebacks, scollop
Dogfish, Muttonfish, Lumpfish, squid, Fivefingers, Monkfish, Nursfish, Sunfish,
Swordfish, Thrasher, Cat, Scuppog, Tootog, eyefish Conner, Ling, Eels, also
Lobsters, Clams, Mussels, Rincles, Porposes, seals and others not named &c, &c *

On the 23rd Aug while standing upon the farm of Eleazar Carver on the North
Island I counted fifty five Islands many of which was inhabited

*On the 6^th Sept
the harbor was filled with a school of Mackerell which the people caught ^in great numbers^ with hooks while
standing upon the wharf we also caught all that we wished in the same way

Vinal Haven includes both North and South Fox Island is in Lat 44 Long 69, 10. The inhabitants are generally healthy, industrious and hospitable to strangers the people obtain most of their wealth and living by fishing they fit out annually over one hundred licensed vessels beside many smaller crafts. The North Island is 9 miles long 2 wide population 800, they have one post office, one store a Baptist meeting house a small branch of the Baptist Church, four school houses and a grist mill the Land is rather rocky and rough yet their are many good farms which produce good wheat barley oats potatoes and grass. The principle timber is fir, spruce, hemlock and birch. Rasp and goose burys grow in great abundance. Sheep are the principle stock. South Fox Island comes as near being without any form as any thing I ever saw, and it would be difficult for a historian to give a description of it. It is about 10 miles long and 5 wide and is one universal mass of rocks, much of it granit, formed into shelves, hills, hollows, cut up into nooks points and canions to make room for the coves an harbors, which run through and through the Island pop 1000, live by fishing their principle stock is sheep I do not recollect of ever seeing a horse on either Island their is some small patches under cultivation but it is at the expens of great labour and toil many from this Island fish at New Foundland bring their fish home and dry them upon flakes, they supply the market annually with a great amount of codfish, mackarel, and boxed herren, this Island contains two stores, three tide saw mills, 6 school houses a small branch of the methodist Church and a priest the timber is pine fir spruce hemlock and birch, also goose bury, raspberies & whoretleburies and upland cramburies, bushes and timber grow in a great measure out of the cravices of the rocks Their is a great amount of variety of fish inhabit the waters, coves, and harbors around these Islands such as whale black fish, shark, ground shark, Pilot fish, horse mackerel sturgeon, salmon, holloboat cod, Pollock, tom cod, hake, haddock, mackarel, shad, bass, alewives, herren, Pohagen, Dolphin, whiting Frostfish, Flounders, smelt, skate, shrimp, shid, cusk, bluebacks, scollop Dogfish, Muttonfish, Lumpfish, squid, Fivefingers, Monkfish, Nursfish, Sunfish, Swordfish, Thrasher, Cat, Scuppog, Tootog, eyefish Conner, Ling, Eels, also Lobsters, Clams, Mussels, Rincles, Porposes, seals &c, &c *

On the 23rd Aug while standing upon the farm of Eleazar Carver on the North Island I counted fifty five Islands many of which was inhabited

*On the 6th Sept the harbor was filled with a school of Mackerell which the people caught in great numbers with hooks standing upon the wharf