17* HISTORY OF THE 



f c Many times this fiihing fleet is attended with cer- 

 tain vefifds called yawgers, which carry fait, cafk, and 

 vjftuals, to truck with the buffes for their herrings, 

 and carry them directly into the Sound, without re- 

 turning into Holland ; for it is a matter of great con.- 

 fequencc and gain, to bring the firft herrings into 

 the Sound -, for there they are efteemed as partridges 

 with us, at their firft coming : but now of late years 

 the Hollanders are prohibited by the ftate, carrying 

 or trucking away their herrings, till they firft land 

 them in Holland; which will prove the more com- 

 modious to us. " 



Sir William proceeds next, to ftate the expence of 

 a bufs of feventy tons from the {locks, with the price 

 of her nets, tackling, fait, victuals, cafks, mens wages, 

 and other particulars ; likewife, of a pink of forty 

 tons, for the white fifhery. He alfo draws a compa- 

 rifon between the Weft India trade and the Britifh 

 fifheries, wherein he ufes various arguments to prove, 

 that the latter branch is, upon the whole, more im- 

 portant than the former, and merits the firft atten- 

 tion of the Britifh government. <c You will wonder, 

 fays he, being born a fubject of England, and caft- 

 ing.ycur eyes upon the gainful foil of the land, that 

 you never conceived what the fea afforded : I confefs 

 it were impoffible for you to live in that ignorance, 

 if it did not appear by the enfuing difcourfe, how 

 you, ypur country, and efpecially the princes of thefe 

 realms, have been abufed, and the profit thereof con- 

 cealed. 



" What better light can we have for this work* 

 than from our neareft and intimateft friends the Hol- 

 landers ? who, by their long travels, their exceflive 

 pains, their ingenious inventions, their incomparable 

 jnduftry, and provident care, have exceeded all other 

 nations in their adventures and commerce, ancl made 

 all the world familiar with them in traffic ; whereby 

 we may juftly attribute to them, what the Chineie 

 affumed to thernfelves, that only they have two eyes, 



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