A. D. 1733. ^99 



their other fifherles : for the fhip-bviilder, the cooper, the fail-maker, 

 the rope-maker, the baker, brewer, diftiller, and other tradefmen, em- 

 ployed in fitting out their fhips, generally go each a fliare in the voy- 

 age : fo that fliould it prove a fortunate fifliing feafon, they are fure to 

 be doubly gainers ; and even if it fhould prove a bad fifhery, they 

 probably lofe but little more than they had gained by fupplying the 

 outfet of fuch year in their refpedUve branches ; whereby they are bet- 

 ter enabled to go on in that trade than mere merchants can do without 

 thefe advantages*. De Witt, in his Intereft of Holland, [r. xvi] fays, ' it 



• is worthy of obfervation, that the Dutch Greenland company made 

 ' formerly little profit by it, becaufe of the great charge of fetting 

 ' out their fliips : whereas now, that they equip their fhips at the cheap- 



* eft rate, follow their fifhery diligently, and manage all carefully, the 

 ' train-oil and whale-fins are employed for fo many ufes in feveral 

 ' countries, and they can fell them with fuch conveniency, that there 

 ' are now fifteen fhips for one that formerly failed from Holland on 

 ' that fifhery.' 



III) By the re-exportation of a great part of the produce of fuch fifh- 

 ery, they are farther enabled to make up the lofs of any bad year's fifh- 

 ery : vi'hereas we have never as yet carried on a whale-fifhery confider- 

 able enough to enable us to export any quantity of oil and whale-fins, 

 nor indeed enough to fupply ourfelves at home. And we may add, 



IV) The antient fianding reafon of the greater lownefs of the inte- 

 reft of money in Holland till very lately. 



There lies now before the author an account of the Dutch whale-fifh- 

 ing for 46 years, ending in 172 1. In that fpace they employed 5886 

 fhips f ,and caught 32,907 whales ; each of which, one with another, be- 

 ing ufually valued at L500, makes the value of the whole amount to 

 above fixteen millions fterling, gained out of the fea, moftly by the la- 

 bour of the people ; the wear and tear of the fliipping, the cafks and 

 the provifions, excepted ; which laft three articles are alio a vaft benefit 

 to the public, by the excife, &c. paid thereon, as well as to numberlefs 

 individuals employed in providing them. 



At the end of this fame year the South-fea company's great annual 

 fhip, the Royal Caroline, arrived from Vera Cruz, after being long de- 

 tained there, being the laft annual fhip which th:it company is ever like 

 to fee from the Spanifli Weft-Indies ; her cargo conlifted of filver, in 

 dollars or pieces of eight, cochineal, and indigo: yet, becaule of the 

 violent detention, this was faid to be a lofing voyage to the company. 



• The fame economy Is praftifcd in fitting out 14//; July 1785, /. 9; and 1800, //. I 19, 125. 



the fifliing vifTcls at Yainioulli and Billingfgatc ; M. 



thebutclici, tlic baker, rope-maker, fail-makci, gro- f Mr. Andcrfon mull here be undcrftood to 



cer.coopcr, mall-makir, iwiiie-f|jinncr, bhick-liiiuh, mean fo many dtpartiirts or voyages; 0015886 



and the mailer, being joint partners with the fac- feparatc vcli'cls. Tlie annual average amount i« 



tor or folcfman. \_Rrfoilt on the Briii/h JiJJ.frics, 128 vcfftls ncireft. M. 



