COMPARATIVE VIEW. — HOLLAND. 153 



disastrous the fishery might be, this sum was al- 

 ways to he paid. But though it might have hap- 

 pened, that this sum was on any occasion totally 

 lost to the adventurers, yet the final loss to the State 

 was not great, because that proportion of expences 

 only which was required for foreign labour and 

 foreign produce, was considered as subtracted from 

 tlie national wealth. 



As it would be too elaborate and uninteresting, 

 were I to follow the foreign authors in the whole 

 particulars of their estimation of the national 

 loss which accrued from one year's equipment of 

 180 shij^s, supposing no returns from the fishery, 

 I shall content myself with giving the result of the 

 whole ; and to those who wish for further informa- 

 tion on the subject, refer them to the originals* 

 The Dutch authors divide the preceding table of 

 ^^ agenaar's in tlie following manner : 



1. They extract the value of certain articles which are the 

 produce of the Provinces, such as butter, cheese, beef, 

 bacon, pease, oatmeal, &c. to which they add the wages 

 of coopers and other artificers, the money expended 

 HI wliich remains entirely in the country, and 

 amounts to 233,500/' 



* " Nieuwe Bcschryving dcr Walvisvangst en Haring Vis- 

 schery, door D. do Jong, H. Kobel, en M. Salieth." And its 

 French translation, " Histoire des Peches, des decouvertes, 

 et des etablissemens des Hollandois, dans les Mers du Nord, par 

 le C. Bejnarde de Reste." 



