ga | a voyage to the Hebrides. May 1&. 
fhooting their nets within a pistol fhot of the spot where 
they were launched into the water. By day-light the 
fifhing is over, and the fifhers breakfast on the spoil, 
rest themselves in the forenoon, and pursue their or- 
dinary occupations through the rest of the day.. At 
Cannay, Erifkay, and Loch Bay, the cod and ling are 
landed, and put to. salt on the very day they are 
caught. The herrings occasionally visit every salt 
water loch along the Hebrides, and north-western 
coast; whereas the Dutch have bufses to fit out at a 
great expence, and a long veyage to make over to the. 
Britith coast before they wet their nets. The voy- 
age from Great Britain to Newfoundland is. surely 
not lefs. expensive.. It is, indeed, said the Swedes,, 
since about the year 1756, have caught herrings. near. 
Gottenburgh, with still more facility; and that the an-— 
nual visit of those fifh has been more steady to the 
neighbourhood of that town, than to any one part 
of the western coasts of Great Britain; but it is ad- 
ded, they arrive every year later and later at that 
place, and if this retardment continue much longer, 
they will arrive when those seas are frozen up, and 
when it would be impofsible to catch them. Tull 
then the Swedes are likely. to be the great herring, 
venders to Europe and the West Indies: For the 
Swedes are: industrious; that part of Sweden is 
very populous; and the fecal obstructions. on the 
subject of salt, are next to nothing. ‘Two hundred. 
thousand barrels are said to be cured there annually,, 
besides fifty thousand barrels. of herring oil. If this 
be true, the Swedes enjoy the same, or, perhaps, su- 
pétior advantages to, our fifhers. for the present ; but. 
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