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ing doubled ttut c.ipcj they muft then furl the fail, 

 oars, through a heavy lea, up the 

 :mes fo: before 



:hc intc. . Having dil'poied. 



of the: (kins, wool, and 



A fiih; ombatthc 



c round of difficulties, toil, and d.. the 



whole t loying four men, from three to fi 



;ic, however infignificant, is i\ 

 per. ing the winter fcafon; t Cation bc- 



.:ti cable for open boats, and the" 

 people as hath been already obferved, arc fhut out 



.c feats of induftry, popu- 

 >n and affluence. Such is the commcr a- 



\\[ a people inhabiting the richcfl, and moft 



inij. ores in the Britifh dominions. 



i ring fifhery, though an object of great im- 

 por country, but to the Wctl- 



.es, and other dependencies abroad, labours under 

 the fame difficulties in thefc weftern leas. We have 

 obfervcd, tluit the bufles fitted out from the ports 

 of the Clyde, muft, in their outward and hoi 

 voyages, (leer round the Mull of Cantire; and, as 

 all the hopes of the adventurers depend on a fpecdf 

 fifhery, and a qui , nothing can prove more 



difcouraging to that national ftaple, than the hazard, 

 the delay, the expencc, and the unr 

 circumnavi^at: 



In a dark, ihious night of January 1782, 



two bufles, loaded with herring, , in 



their homeward paflfage fn l i Broom, on 



coming round the peninfulaof Cantire. Many lives 

 werr lud ; and as the crev vcflll have ge- 



nerally a concern in the venture, icvc: 

 were at once deprived of I. , fathers, and 



property. It would be cm; ite the 



many cataftrophes which b- induftrious 



>ple, in navigating thofe narn during the 



:uer hurricanes. The melancholy talcs of widows 



aru 



