484 A. D. 1768. 



7,351 men, wlio made 214,100 quintals of fifh and 3,198 liogflieads of 

 oil. Their filhers on the banks, from the bell accounts, might be 

 rated at 225 veflels of 100 tuns and 20 men each ; and their captures 

 were efti mated at 4,500,000 quintals of fifh and 900 hogfheads of oil. 

 Their fifhery on the coafts of St. Pierre, and Miquelon, and in the 

 Gulf of St. Laurence, from the bed accounts, employed the fame 

 number of veflels as laft year, viz. 70 vefTels of about 50 tuns and 18 

 men each on an average, who were fuppoled to make 42,500 quintals 

 of fifli and 458 hogflicads of oil. Their traders from the Weft-India 

 iflands this year were only about four fmall veflels, their difappoint- 

 ment in the expedled fales of their rum and melaffes among our people 

 at Newfoundland having induced moft of them to give up the trade. 



Sixteen French boats were feized this year by the veflels under 

 Governor Pal lifer's command for fifhing beyond their limits. 



By the erection of larger and more powerful fire engines the coal 

 mines now began to be worked with greater advantage. One of them 

 fet up at Tinemouth-moor colliery was eftimated to raife a thoufand 

 hogfheads of water in an hour from the depth of feventy feet *. 



An improved pump for {hips was invented by Mr. Cole, and on trial 

 at Portfmouth was found to be lefs cumberfome, eafier worked, eafier 

 cleared when choaked, and much more powerful, than the cham pump. 



Mr. William Gilchrift, a millwright in Jamaica, invented a new mill 

 for grinding fugar canes, having the fide rollers larger than the middle, 

 or main, roller. The legiflature of Jamaica in December 1768 pafled 

 an adt for fecuring to him the exclufive benefit of his invention for four- 

 teen years, and Mr. Gilchrift: afterwards petitioned the king for a patent 

 for all the other Weft-India iflands. 



A letter from the governor of Cape-coaft caftle on the coaft of Africa 

 to his conftituents, the committee of merchants trading to Africa, (dat- 

 ed 30'^ December 1768) complains of the Dutch commander at Elmina 

 having feized and otherways maltreated feveral Portuguefe veflels for 

 felling Brafil tobacco to the Englifli fettlements. 



The number of negroes purchafed by the Europeans in the courfe of 

 this year on the coaft of Africa, between Cape Blanco and Rio Congo, 

 was ftatfcd as follows. 



By Britifli veflbls - - 53.iooKqaoo 



Britifh Americans - - 6,jOoj''^'^ 



French - - - 23,520 



Dutch - - 11,300 



Portuguefe - - 1,700 



Denmark - - 1 ,200 



Total natives of Africa carried off in one year 97, ' 00 



• Thefe engines were afterwards eclipfed, and 'n many places fuperfeded, by the vaftly more power- 

 ful fteam engines ao improted by Meffrs. Boulton and Watt. 



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