Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Newfoundland” in chapter 12, page 272 of George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.:
...lute and exclusive: it conceded the land and islands; the rivers and the harbors; the mines and the fisheries.
Without the leave of the council of Plymouth, not a ship might sail into a harbor from Newfoundland to the latitude of Philadelphia; not a skin might be purchased in the interior; not a fish might be caught on the coast; not an emigrant might tread the soil.
No regard was shown for the
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