on the White Sea fifheries: Sept. 4e 
Rufsians catch and cure in the Danifh bays, when they 
are more plentiful there than in their own. 
2dly, The rude treatment the pgasants met with from 
the Dutch boors quartered on them, who literally smoak- 
ed them out of their cottages, without paying atten- 
tion to the dislike they have to tobacco 3 especially a sect 
of fanatics called Ro/ko/nicks, who are very numerous in 
these parts, (resembling in some degree our Britith me- 
thodists,) and who regard the smoak of tobacco as a spe- 
cies of religious abomination, as the Jews did pork Gc. ; 
this treatment alienated so completely the peasants from 
the fifhery, that they could only be compelled by force 
to work at it, and secretly hurt it by every means in 
their power, so that the expences were scarcely paid by 
the profits, when in the hands of government, and the 
company who next took it up. The principal draw- 
backs upon its succefs, now that it is open to all without 
restriction and monopoly, arise from the article of sa/t, 
like those of your Scotch fifheries, which otherways 
must bea great national blefsing.. What a pity it is that 
your ministers, now that they have given up all thoughts 
of drawing any revenue from the salt used in your fifhe- 
ries, to the great honour of the legislature, cannot find a _ 
little time to take of a set of uselefs checks in the old regu- 
lations, which operate, as I see by different accounts, 
as asort of prohibition to what, if properly regulated, 
to the ease and profit of the thousands who emigrate 
from the north, would equal if not surpafs, any coloneal 
advantage, whicn the happy* and towering island, ever 
did, or ever will draw, from many it has planted in distant 
regions. It would appear to me as a laudable species 
of ambition to a certain countryman of ours, who has 
at present that influence in the ministry, which his great 
and solid talents, joined to his honourable station in ity 
