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Men & Boy v 

 3000 large, flout boats, each carrying 5 men 



and a boy 18,000 



500 bufTes from 20 to 120 tons, fitted out 

 from the Solway Firth, the Clyde, Loch 

 Fine, the weft Highlands, and Hebride 



ifles, for the floating and Loch fifheries 

 between Iceland and the Ifle of Man, 

 navigated upon an average by 14 men 

 each 



4000 large, ftout boats, fitted out from the * 

 before-mentioned places, particularly the I 

 Lochs of the Highlands, each carrying \ 

 5 men and a boy 



7000 



Men and boys in the Scottilh fifheries 53,200 



Befides quick-failing cutters and wherries employed 

 in running to market with herrings and white fifh ; 

 alfo various veffels built on particular conftrudtions, 

 for particular purpofes, not regiftered or compre- 

 hended within the bounty laws, and which may be 

 termed irregulars. 



Of the Engiifh fifheries upon the coafts of that 

 kingdom, and alfo by Englishmen on the, coafts of 

 Scotland, Ireland, and the Ifle of Man, I cannot 

 fpeak with fuch preciflon j but as the parliamentary 

 aids relative to bounties and markets will operate 

 .equally in both kingdoms, it rnay be fuppofed that 

 . the Engiifh fifheries will increafe in a very confider- 

 able degree, particularly the white fifhery in the 

 North Seas, which is at prefent given up. 



Without entering into particular ftatements of 

 the Engiifh fifheries, we may eftimate the value of 

 exports as equal to one half of the Scottilh fale; 

 confequently the general amount will ftand thus : 

 Exports from Scotland 500,000 



g.-. England 250^000 



Total Amount of exports from Great 



Britain ~- - . 750,000 



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