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calculate on its proximity, in case of an error in 

 their longitude. In Orkney, the men taken on 

 board on the outward passage, are landed on their 

 return ; and tlie crew are mustered, when the num- 

 ber of men engaged at the port from which the 

 vessel sailed, was not sufficient for performing this 

 legal ceremony at home. These matters accomplish- 

 ed, the sliip proceeds immediately to her port. 



The legislative regulations on the importation of 

 Davis' Straits produce, are the same as on cargoes 

 obtained in the Greenland fishery. 



SECT. II. 



Co?nparatrje View of the Fislieries of Greenland 

 and Davis' Straits. 



Hitherto the comparative advantages of the 

 fisheries of Greenland and Davis' Straits have been 

 entirely matter of opinion, no one having, I believe, 

 taken the pains to make correct estimates on the 

 subject. It may, therefore, be worth while to give 

 the result of some calculations, made with a view 

 of ascertaining the relative value of the two fish- 

 eries to individuals who embark their property in the 

 trade. 



Among the Dutch fishers, we find that, during 

 a period of 107 years, included between 1669 and 

 1778, each ship in a fleet of 132 saii, which pro- 



