V- I E W 



OF THE 



Scottifli White Fiftieries, 



TT THITE fifh, as cod, ling, hake,tufk, coalfifli 

 \ \ haddocks, whitings j and flat fifh, as turbot, 

 fkate, foals, and flounders, abound fo univerfally 

 around the Scottifli fhores, that the whole northern 

 feas, from the Dogger Bank in lat. 54, to the nor- 

 thern extremity of Iceland, lat. 67, and from the 

 coaft of Norway eaftward, to unknown latitudes on 

 the weft, may be confidered as one great fifhery, in 

 which Scotland, as lying in the centre, hath a mani- 

 feft advantage over all other nations. Bountiful 

 Nature hath placed that country in or upon the beft 

 fifhing grounds, as appears from the annual refort 

 of veffels from the northern Hates of Europe and 

 America, to that portion of the ocean lying between 

 the Hebride Iflands and Iceland, an inexhauftible 

 fourceofall the varieties of white fifli ; while the 

 banks of Newfoundland produce only the cod fifh. 

 If report be true, the European fifh are alfofuperior 

 in quality; certain it is, that when properly cured, 

 they are excellent in tafte and flavour. 



Nature, or rather the indulgent Author of nature, 

 hath alfo furnifhed Scotland with the means of 

 making fait, in the great quantity of coal found on 

 the fhores of its navigable firths; but all thefe blef- 

 fmgs, fo far as they regard the fifheries, have of late 

 years been loft, through the fyftem which facrifices 

 fiiheries and manufactures to revenue 3 infomuch 



that, 



