PREFACE. Vll 



To Solomon Lincoln, Esq., acknowledgments are 

 made in another place, for his valuable services. 



A digest of the Fishery Laws, by the Hon. John 

 Pickering, to have been annexed, and to have con- 

 stituted part the third, was not seasonably completed, 

 and may therefore be expected hereafter, should the 

 present Essay meet the approbation of the public. 



J. V. C. Smith. 

 Quarantine Ground, 



Port of Boston, May, 1833. 



