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t of flavour was we believe generally, and we think 
justly, ascribed. The inhab rer paws oR 
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for a spirit of enterprize far above those 
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ed body, the Highland Society of Scotland, 
ertion and careful investigation, discovered and pointed 
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and. by means of their reports, a bill was brought into 
June 1808, and. the provisions of it took place from 
the Ist of June 1809, and were to continue in force until 
the Ist of June 1813, and from thence to the end of the 
then next session of Parliament, (1814). | Some amend- 
ments were at that time and with these we 
the same act either has or will berenewed. It 
is a spirited and fair i and. we hope will-af- 
ford a proof of the utility and many advantages that 
must accrue to the state from a persevering prosecu- 
tion of all the branches of the deep-sea.fishing. Yet, at 
the same time, we must. remark, that this act is not 
without its imperfections; and it is to be that 
it did not embrace ions for some of our other 
fisheries, which so 
terference, such as conservancies for our rivers. 
Had the commissioners in that act been appointed as 
a court of conservancy, with a power, ing to lo« 
cal situation, to. constitute district courts under them, 
it might have saved that fishery from an uni 
to which it is fast. verging. The use of stake nets, -h 
and the wanton and prodigious destruction of the fry 
in various of the country, have been very injuri« 
ous to this . It would have been well, :too,, 
had it held out great and particular encouragement 
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ution of our fisheries ; we applaud 
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not approve of any we have 
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* We ronst, however, in these general observations, except the whale fishery, which has of late been carried on most stecessful~ 
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