French Shore
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There might––there ought to be––good profit in a cash-trading voyage in a small schooner to the harbours of White Bay and the French Shore.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman
A new account, too: this on the ledger of Wull & Company, trading the French Shore with the Always Loaded, putting in off and on.
From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman
And loaded, sir––loaded, sir, with as fine a lot o’ salt-cod as ever came out o’ White Bay an’ off the French Shore!
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman
“She’s the White Bay and French Shore trader.”
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman
I refer to White Bay, a remote district on the so-called French Shore of Newfoundland.
From Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859 by Feild, Edward
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