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adventurers, meets a satisfactory solution in tlie af- 

 fimiative. 



It may not be uninteresting, before we quit this 

 subject, to calculate the extent of national emo- 

 lument which the Dutch have derived from the 

 two fisheries of Greenland and Davis' Straits. 

 Supposing the principle to be correct, that out of 

 1,800,000/^, the advances required for 180 fishing 

 ships, only 237,600 Jl, the proportion expended in 

 foreign produce for stores, and in wages to foreign 

 seamen, and 37,300^!, the average value of ships 

 wrecked each year, were loss to the State, in case of 

 no returns being made from the fishery, — we then 

 easily calculate the benefit to the State arising from 

 the known success of the Dutch fleet during the 

 period comprised in the preceding table. 

 Prom this table, it appears, that the " amount of 

 receipts" of the whole Dutch Greenland fleet dur- 

 ing a period of 107 years, was 222,1 86,770^.' 



Freight or " receipts" of the Davis' 



Straits fleet during 60 years, 51,643,082 



Gross produce of the whale-fisheries, 273,829,852 /' 

 Now, the amount of expcnces of 

 the two fleets, appears to be 



218,571,580/; we therefore say, 



As 1,800,000/, the expenditure 



Carried forward, 273,829,852 /.' 



