A. D. 1776. 



595 



cruifers made prizes of great numbers of fmall American veflels bound 

 to the foreign Weft-India iflandswith cargoes of provifions and lumber, 

 ■which, though of trifling value, being carried into our iflands, afforded 

 them a feafonable relief, though by no means adequate to their wants. 

 The following retrolped of the Scottifli herring fifliery from the com- 

 mencent of the bounties fliows the flow progrefs it made during feveral 

 years, its rife to fome degree of importance, the rapid decline of it in 

 confequence of the protraded and irregular payment of the boimty, 

 and the good effed of the regular payment, which afterwards took 

 place, at a reduced rate of bounty. 



Years. 



1751 

 1752 

 1753 

 1754 

 1755 

 1756 

 1757 

 1758 



i759 

 1760 

 1761 

 1762 

 1763 

 1764 

 1765 

 J 766 

 1767 

 1768 



1770 

 1771 



1-72 



1773 



1774 



i;-5 



1776 



Vessels. 



2 

 4 

 3 

 6 

 1 

 1 



2 



3 



3 



13 



17 



49 



87 



119 



157 



261 



266 

 207 



87 



19 



f summer fishing 

 " 1 winter fishing 



294 { 



Slimmer 



inter 

 summer 



inter 

 summer 



nter - 

 summer 



inter - 

 summer 

 winter - 



Bounty. 



After this year the fifliery again declined as long as the war conti- 

 nued. 



The Eaft-India company obtained by treaty a confirmation of the 

 property of the ifland of Salfettc, which their forces had taken poflef- 

 fion of in the year 177.3. Tt is a fertile illand, about 15 miles in length 

 and nearly as much in breadth, fcparated by a very narrow channel from 

 the ifland on which Bombay flands : and, as that fettlement had no ter- 

 ritory beyond the limits of its own fmall ifland, anil confcqucntly de- 



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