A. D. 1730. 159 



as what has once been may hereafter be again, we ought not, therefor, 

 ro be greatly furprifed if thofe deUcious fifh fhould again remove to 

 fome other coaft. What at prefent has given occafion for this remark 

 is, the account given in the fummer of this year by the herring-fifhers, 

 which, it feems, much furprifed them, viz. that (holes of herrings had 

 come fouthward near two months before their ufual time ; particularly, 

 in the fea between England and Ireland, great quantities were taken in 

 July, off the frith of Clyde, and off Londonderry, as far fouth as the 

 bays of DubUn and Wexford *. Had this humour of thofe fifli con- 

 tinued or increafed in fucceeding years, it might poiTibly have diminifla- 

 ed their numbers at Lewis and Shetland, which have been their ftations 

 for fo many ages, and to which great numbers of Scottlfli and Dutch 

 fifhermen refort for that fifhery. Such an alteration in fo great a branch 

 of commerce would, doubtlefs, have occafioned a confiderable change in 

 the commercial flaie of feveral countries of Europe. But nothing extra- 

 ordinary of that kind has iince happened. 



The Turkey company are faid to have fliipped 10,000 pieces of broad 

 cloth in four fliips, in Auguft, for the Levant ; which demonftrates the 

 very great importanceof that company's commerce to the nation. 



In Odober this year we find the following remarkable importations 

 of goods from the Englifli American colonies, which being entirely 

 new, and moftly unexpected, produdions in thofe colonies, though 

 not very confiderable in themfelves, are well worth remarking, as a 

 great increafe of niofi; part thereof has fince fortunately happened, viz. 



Two tons of iron from St. Chriftophcrs, found in that part of the ifland 

 which formerly was poirefled by the French f. 



Fifty hundred weight of hemp, raifed in New-England and Caro*' 

 lina. 



Seventy-two bag^ pf wool, from, and produced in, the iflandsof Ja- 

 maica, St. Chriftophers, &c. J. 



Forty tons of iron ; 30 hundred weight of copper ore ; 156 quintals 

 of bees-wax ; 3 hundred weight of hemp ; 3 hundred weight of raw filk; 

 all produced in the province of Virginia. 



Tiie Hudfon's-bay company this year imported 11,040 coat and parch- 

 ment beaver-fkins ; 4404 ditto of cubs ; 3330-damagcd and flage parch- 

 ment ; 990 ditto cubs; 1648 martins, and 3130 damaged ditto; 380 



* Very oppofile opinions have been lield upon pliers by any account of that ifland. I tliink it 



the curious fubjcdt of ihc migration of the heriiiij;. mull have been pitvluufly imported to it. M. 

 The nader, who wiOics to examine tlitm, may } Qjiirt-, if not cotton, ufiially called cotton 



f onlult Dotld's Efay upon tit /jrrrin^, p. ^4. — An- wool : If it was real wool, it muft have been taken 



i'.tif(.ni Account vj'thf llchriJei [IVifterniJlands), pp. from northern llieep carried to thofe illands, or il 



y/^ft, 449 — KnoKt Viciu oj'thr Jinlijk empire, p. 1 7 I mull have bi-cn imported from fume other country ; 



— /fmericiin Philofophical iranfatliom, V. ii,/). 236. for, it is well known, that in all tropical countries 



A/. (hctp lofc their wool, .nnd become as fmooih a? 



I I do not find iron a produAion of St. ChriHo- Lorfek-, fouii after thcu arrival. M, 



