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Statistics of foreign mnrlcrd imported into and exported from the United 

 States, and of dried codfish imported into the name. 



THE HEKlilXG FISHERY. 

 From its commc7icctncnt to the year 1S52. 

 Wc liear of thi.s fishery among the Pilgrim.'^.* In 1041 tlicy rented 



* In the rsign of James I, of Scotland, we find mention of the cnstom or duty on the export- 

 ation of hcrring.s — a j)nii(f iliar tin- fLslicry had ilu-n attained to importance in Greut iJritain. 

 We leant, too, that thi- EnglLsh, tliinkinc it (H.-^Kraccfid that the l)ntcii, their rivals in com- 

 merce, siiouid derive so nnicii wealth from the coasts of Ent'land, set ahout prosrciitinjj tho 

 heiTJni; fishery, and in thr- year ]5H() raised the sum of £.■<(),• Hid liy a joint stock company. 



In 17(J0, there wt-re eni])loyeil on the coast of YaniHMitli, England, 205 vessels nf finm thirty 

 to one hundred tons. lu iii'M, the shore hevriuy fishery of England and Scotland employed 



