HERRING FISHERIES. 



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jefty's cutters, at any time or place while the 

 veffels are* upon the riihing grounds, as at Brafla 

 Sound, Loch t Broom, or the Long I (land j by 

 this all evafion of the law would be impracticable, 

 and the purpofes of government effectually anfwered, 

 at no expence or delay to the parties concerned. It 

 is therefore propofed, that the practice of a general 

 rendezvous at Campbeltown, or clfewhere in the 

 Weft Highlands, do ceafe, and that every vefTd after 

 having cleared out, {hall be permitted to proceed 

 directly to the fifheries. 



Of the Delays, Dangers, and Loffes arifingfrcm the 

 Pa/age by the Mull of Can fire. 



But all the various inconveniencies and difcou- 

 ragements above enumerated are trivial, when com- 

 pared to the delays, hazards, damages, lofs, of vef- 

 fels, cargoes and men, in the outward and home- 

 ward navigation by the Mull of Cantire. By Can- 

 tire is meant, a narrow peninfula, which ftretches 

 forty miles from the mainland of Scotland, in a 

 fouthern direction, till it approaches within twenty 

 miles of the county of Antrim in the north of Ire- 

 land. By this narrow paflage between the two king- 

 doms, all the (hipping of the Clyde pafs to and 

 from the Weft Highlands, the Hebrides, and the 

 Atlantic. 



The diftance from Greenock to the promontory or 

 cape, which terminates this peninfula, ufually called 

 the Mull of Cantire,* is above fixty miles in a fouth- 



* 3f/7, or, as it is called by the Highlanders, Mo-!, feems 

 to be the Gallic term for cape, and hath been adopted by the 

 Lowlanders in two inftances only, viz. the Mull of Cantire, and 

 the Mull of Galloway, the two ibuthern extremities oil the weft 

 fide of the kingdom. 



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