200 HISTORY OF THE 



moft day and night in making, from 50 to 60,000 

 barrels ; every department were buiily engaged in 

 their refpe&ive branches. 



It would be difficult to enumerate all the channels 

 of expenditure into which the adventurers, and all 

 perfons depending on that bufmeis, had further em- 

 barked for extending the fifhery; neither can we 

 form an eftimate of the aggregate amount. But 

 though we cannot afcertain, with precifion, the pofi- 

 tive expence of works then going on, we way draw 

 fome inference, and form a probable conjecture, 

 from a ftatement of the expences of 261 bufTes al- 

 ready afloat. 



The building a bufs of 60 tons, and equip-" 

 ping her for the fifhery in boats, net- 

 ting, &c. cofts the owners, excluiive of 

 caflcs, fait, provifions, and mens wages, j 1 85,049 

 709!. confequently, the prime coft of 

 261 bufles, befides occafional repairs, 

 and frefh fets of nets, amounted to 

 As preparations were then making for" 

 profecuting the fifhery with redoubled 

 vigour, and upon the moft extenfive 

 fcale, we cannot conjecture the pofitive }> IOO,OOQ 

 difburfements, and the engagements 

 in which thofe venturous men had 

 $gain embarked, at lefs than 



To this ftatement may be added the rear 

 or apparent lofs, fuftained by the indivi- 

 duals of Campbeltown, who, from the 

 year 1750, when the bounty was firft 

 granted, had upon fpeculation, built 

 many expenfi ve houfes of ftone, lime, 

 and flate , which lofs, operating in va- 

 rious ways amongft a great number of 

 perfons,, could not be lefs 



285,049 



50,009 



