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| | Taverner's Second Report |
 | | Great Placentia is a very good harbour, but the tide runns very strong, there are about Thirty Stages, 100 houses and one Church, There is the finest beech as ever I saw for Drying Codfish, large enough for 500 Boats, to cure their ffish on. |
 | | Winterhousing was a common practice among eighteenth-century Newfoundland inhabitants; they would live on the coast and fish from spring until autumn, then disperse inland to seek the shelter of the forest, supporting themselves by hunting and trapping. |
 | | Merasheen Harbour disappeared during the resettlement of the 1960s; it was a snug harbour located on the southwestern tip of Merasheen Island, the largest island in Placentia Bay. |
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