_ 299%. a voyage to the Hebrides. $3 
from time immemorial herrings have abounded or 
our British coasts, inisuch plenty, that the fithers may 
be always certain ef catching enough for their own 
supply; and the waste of a few nets and boats may 
be easily borne even in the lefs succefsful years of the 
filhery. 
But how can they convey their fifh to market with- 
out the expence of larger vefsels? Just as they do 
their kelp. When that article began first to be made 
here, it was sold to chance buyers as low as 15 s. per 
ton. The makers were glad to take whatever unrival- 
led buyers offered. The case is now widely altered: 
Vefsels come yearly to this certain kelp market, avd 
the price has risen toL.5. L.5. tos. and L.6 per 
ton. Is it to be doubted, that vefsels would alse 
come in time to fetch the herrings, so considerable 
an article of the food of our own people, and so ne- 
cefsary for feeding our West India slaves? Why 
then has not such a trade been already establifhed ? 
This is a political question, of too long discufsion 
for a journal. The causes may be thortly stated; 
first, though there be some people to catch fith along 
those coasts, yet they are few, and they are scattered 
and dispersed, neither collected into towns nor villages. 
Secondly, the industrious people are not free; they 
must, in general, work for the person in whose land 
they are settled. Most of them are bound to per- 
form one day’s work of this kind every week, or 
fifty-two days in the year, a sixth part of the year. 
But if we deduct bad days, on which no work can be 
performed, the proportion will be found still greater. 
Salt is very inaccefsible,—fih cannot be cured for sale 
