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experienced Teamen, or perfons who were advancing 

 progreflively, in the naval profeflion. 



The great fuperiority of this nurfery to all others 

 appears in the following comparative ftatement : 

 The commerce of the 13 States when in our") 



pofieflion ; alfo Canada, Nova Scotia and > 8000 



Hudfon's Bay, employed J 



The Whale fifhery to Greenland, Davis's^ 



Straits, and other parts, encouraged ju- I 3000 



dicioufly, by a large bounty, employs J 

 The fettlements, colonies, and iflands, ftill fubjec"b 



to Great Britain., in various parts of the world, 



employ, viz, 



Hudfon's Bay ~ 130 



Nova Scotia* - - 200 



Canada *- ** - 400 



Africa * 3900 



Weft Indies 12000 



China, and the Eaft Indies, previous to the i , 



tea aft - ~ -, } 6 



22630 

 The Newfoundland fifheries employed of> 



men and boys, from Great Britain and I 1 2000 

 Ireland, exclufive of the natives J 



' This ftatement fpeaks at once to the underftand- 

 ing. We perceive that the Scottifh fifheries, and 

 of one fpecies only, employed in the proportion 

 of nearly feven feamen to one of thofe who are en- 

 gaged in the whale fifhery ; above two to one of 

 thofe who carried on the whole North American 

 commerce while in our pofTeflion \ and nearly equal 



: The eftimate, refpe&ing Canada and Nova Scotia, being 

 ade before the American war, muft be confidered far too lo\r 

 for the prefent time. The great refort of refugees to thofe pro- 

 vinces, and the rapid increale of trade with the mother country 

 and the Weft Indies, will in a few years employ a or 3000 Britifli 

 ieamen. On the other hand, the Newfoundland fiflieries will, in 

 all probability, fall chiefly into the hands of France, Nova Scotia, 

 and ;he American flutes, 



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