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Thus, an expeiice of 10,000 to 13,000 florins was 

 requisite, before a ship could he sent out and return 

 from the fishery ; and this sum was necessarily ex> 

 pended whatever might be the issue of the voyage. 

 This estimation does not differ greatly from that of 

 other intelligent persons. A work, entitled " Den 

 Koopman," (TheJNIerchant,) states the average num* 

 her of fishing ships to have been 180 sail, the a- 

 mount of advances on which, after the rate of Zorg- 

 drager's estimation, is 2,240,460 florins. Wage- 

 naar, another celebrated historian of Holland, gives 

 a calculation a little different. He estimates the 

 total advances requisite for the equipment of 180 

 fishing ships, at 1,800,000/ after the rate of 10,000/ 

 for each ship. We find the particulars of AV^age- 

 naar's calcidation in his work, called " Tegenwor- 

 digen Staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden." They are 

 as follow : 



36,000 new casks, 108,000/ 



2,700,000 hoops, for repairing old casks, &c 43,300 



Coopers' wages, 21 ,600 



172,0001b. of cordage, 35,000 



Making and repairing boats, vnih dieir stores, 15,000 



Iron- work, nails, smiths'' Avages, &c. , 5,000 



400,0001b. of beef, &c., 40,000 



2,800 firkins of butter, of 80 or 90 Arast. lb. each, 57,600 



150,000 lb. of stock-fish, 12,000 



550,000 lb. of biscuit, 40,000 



72,000 lb, of soft bread, 18,000 



Can-ied forward, 395,500/ 



