COMPARATIVE VIEW. — SPAIN. KJl 



Brought forward, / 253,,522 

 pounds of fins, which, estimated at 

 15Qf.per lOOlb., amounts to, 325,500 



Consequently, this part of the national 

 industry of Holland, brought in an- 

 nually in numerical value, the sum 

 of, / 579,022 



The expences of a ship at this period, with an aver- 

 age cargo of 120 quardeelen of oil, is estimated at 

 13,800y^, which, multiplied by 60, the number of 

 vessels employed, amounts to, y^ 828,000 



But the amount of freight as above esti- 

 mated, was only 579,022 



Consequently, there must have been 

 an annual loss to the adventurers 

 of, */ 248,978 



SECT. IV 



Whale-Fishery of the Spaniards, French, Danes, 

 Germans, Norxvegians, Prussians and Szvedes. 



The BiscAYANS appear to have engaged in the 

 whale- fisher}^ on their own coasts, probably some 

 centuries before tlie establishment of the fishery at 



V01-. ii. L 



* Metclerkamp, " Tf.bleau Statistique de lu Hollande/' p. i7-~ 

 in. 



