CANAL BETWEEN THF 



time, he able to procure a comfortable fubfiftence. 

 litate the fifheries of thole diltri&s, 

 bv opening a fhort paflage for tl < to and from 



the Clyde. Poflibly 10 or 12 veflels from that 

 river m.r his navigation annually, in their 



to the Balrc, providing that the tor. 

 (hall be moderate; but the fum nrifing from \ 

 will be fotrifli: fo precarious that it can- 



not be bron .cronnt. Were a communica- 



tion opened between Fort n and Invcrnefs, 



-s or traders would alfo navigate this 

 1, which could nor, however, afford much 

 o the fubfcribers, and the profpect is ditb.nt. 

 We muft therefore recur to the former ftatement 

 e number of decked veflels, which, with 

 encouragement, may be engaged in the 

 weftern fifheries, 'I hefe we dated at 500, whi' 

 lol. each, would repay the fubfcribers, providing 

 that all the bufies fubmitted to ihat exorbitant 

 mand, \vhich is very doubtful. In fummer, and in ap- 

 parently moderate weather,' the whole tifhing 

 feafon, many veflels, to a\ -ould 

 pref ;>y the Mull of Cantire i proba- 

 ^ne half of the voyages would be thus perform- 

 ed*: if fo, the ild not receive 4 per 

 . fuppofing the icl. to be chearfully paid by the 

 r , and that this toll or tonnage fhould not 

 e a ftrong difcouragement to the li! To 

 hold out alh' I for extending that branch, and 

 at the fame time, to burden it with with an annual 

 tribute of 5000!. would, in effect, defeat the hud- 

 able intention of the public. 'J hr iifhing v 



' rh half cargoes; frequently with 

 fourth, and foir.etimes in ballad. 



ng to the Baltic have ai 



^ on that commerce, viz. the long naxn^ation 

 itire, anil the fliort paffage i 

 nctors of this latter 

 -uM gocithci 

 n naviga^ 



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