726 



A. D. 1782. 



Indies they were not admitted, and few went to France. The principal 

 markets were within the Baltic fea, as will appear by the following 



j4ccount of exports of herrings from Gottenburgb 



in the years 



To Cork and otlier ports in Ireland 

 Madeira, and the West-Indies") 



(chiefly S'. Eustathius) J 



France and the Mediterranean 

 Different ports iu tlie Baltic not "» 



subject to Sweden J 



Different ports of Sweden 



Totals of barrels measuring 321 

 gallons*, and containing about > 

 900 herrings each J 



So fuperabundant was the capture of herrings on the Swedifh fliore, 

 that it exceeded every poflible demand for them ; and they were ob- 

 liged to boil many millions of them for oil, one barrel of which was 

 obtained from eighteen barrels of herrings. In the year 1781 they 

 exported to the Baltic, Holland, and Spain, 14,542 barrels of herring 

 oil of about 42 gallons each ; and from 1,000 to 1,500 barrels were an- 

 nually confumcd in the country. But the herring oil is greatly inferior 

 to whale oil, or even liver oil, and is liable to congeal in cold weather 

 to a confiftence fomething like honey f . 



The herring fifliery of Holland, once fo pre-eminently great and 

 flourifliing, employed now only 200 bufles of about 26 tuns burthen. 



The French for fome few years part had caught fome herrings of an 

 inditfcrent quality upon their own coalt, part oi: which they dried for 

 the Mediterranean trade, but the greateft part was fliipped for their 

 Weft-India fcttlements. 



The war was of fome fcrvice to the city of Dantzik in reviving its 

 commerce. In the courfe of this year 549 veflcls failed from that port, 

 many of which were employed to great advantage in carrying timber 

 for the ufe of the Britifli navy ; and 502 arrived, not one of which was 

 under Dutch colours, though many of them were, probably, Dutch 

 property. 



* So the fizf of tlio banrl is lialcd by the an- t!on, was prohibitfd by an edliS from the ktnjj. 



thor ol ihis ; ii'.)rmatioii. Jim f:oi'i a niiiTihev of The oil-maktts rcmonHruttd, ynd were pcririr.'.'.-d 



othci ai.thDiiiios t!ic S\\ tdiiii barrels apjxar to to make funic experiments, wh'cli, as tlicy allc^-ed, 



toiitalii thirlyjix <;aIloiis. proved, tliat tlie tilhety wa'- iin])n)ved by throwing 



f The oil-mukeis iilcd to throw the rcfi;ft of the refiife into the fea. Stront;-,, t!iat it ilioiiUi 



the herrings ii:to tlie fea, which pnirtice, being not occur to tlitni, liow v.aluj'uk- fo vaft a quantitv 



thoughtprejiidici.il to tl.e filhcry .ind to naviga- of animal fubftance mull be as a manure ! 



