53* OF THfe SOLWAY FIRTH. 



Cumberland the counties of Down and Antrim, 

 the feats of manufactures, bleachcrics, filhcrirs ami 



igation in Ireland the iflc of Man, rcmai ka 

 for its great herring fiflicries within t . 

 of Glafgow, Liverpool, Dublin and tin- Irilh t 

 . andwithinthreec: ing, with a fair wind, of the 



Sride fifheries. \V tlfo noti fa- 



vourable fituation for the ..n and Weft-India 



trade, opening immediately T Atlantic, and 



enjoying all the advantages of t:, ( ihe 



coafts on the Iriih chan 



Having thus enumerated the bountiful difp 

 tions of the Author of Nature, to this coait, v 

 now (late the- improvements of luch gifts, by the 

 inhabitants. 



Of (hi pping, and f. e, they have none, 



the exports of grain ai, !, by barks and flu 



excepted. 



Of bufiTes, for ttif Irifh and Hebride fifheries, 

 they have rot a fingle 



Of <k, cotton *, wool, linen, 



thread, iron, copp I, fait, leather, Ibap, 



&c. they have not the fmalleft, appearance. 



Hearing thefe circumilances repeated, widiout 

 variation, at every village, town, or royal borough, 

 I loft all patience : <( Unhappy beings ! how in the 

 name of wonder, do you get a fubfiftencer" " \ 

 do a little," anfwered they, (( in the fpirit way ; 

 we fmuggle a little :" A proof, among many others, 

 that of all trades, that of fmuggling, however flat- 

 tering to fpeculation, is the moft fallacious in the 

 experiment. 



Previous to the union, this coaft, as before ob- 

 ferved, had fome traffic and (hipping. Some of 

 the ports were refpeftable, when Grecnock, Roth- 

 fay, and Campbeltown, were compofcd of a 

 thatched cottages, and when Port G'Uloow had no 

 exiftence. The high duties to which Scotland fub- 



* I have juft been informed that cotton mills are now building at 

 Annan, and Newtonftewart. 



jefted 



