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. 385, 386 ; increase of foreign 

 competition, ix., 386-388 ; applica- 

 cations to the State for subsidies, ix., 

 388 ; attempts to encourage the 

 fishery by grant of exemptions from 

 taxation, ix., 388, 389 ; opening of 

 the French market to Dutch herring, 

 ix., 389 ; and subsequent withdrawal 

 of the privilege, 390 ; strict exclusion 

 of English herring from the French 

 market, ix., 390 ; grant of direct pre- 

 miums by Flushing and other ports, 

 for the encouragement of the herring 

 fishery, ix., 390, 391 ; increasing 

 competition of foreigners in the trade 

 with Hamburg, ix., 391, 392 ; refusal 

 of the Fishery College to rescind the 

 law fixing a date for commencing 

 the fishery, ix., 392 ; grant in 1775 

 of a bounty for two years to vessels 

 fishing for herring, ix., 394 ; trade not 

 permanently benefited thereby, ix., 



395 ; fishing again prohibited owing 

 to war with England in 1780, ix.,395 ; 

 owners now first allowed to sell their 

 vessels abroad, ix., 396 ; further appli- 

 cations for and grant of bounties, ix., 



396 ; renewal of laws against engaging 

 in foreign fishing concerns, and against 

 export of unbranded herrings to the 

 \Veser and the Elbe, ix., 396, 397 

 IVJiale fishing Date of its origin, ix., 



397 ; failure of the first attempts, ix., 



398 ; mode of conducting the early ex- 

 peditions, ix., 398 ; contentions with 

 the British at Spitzbergen, ix., 399 ; 

 chartering of the Dutch Arctic Com- 

 pany, ix., 399 ; history of its pros- 

 perity and decline, ix., 400-409 ; 

 general participation in the Arctic 

 fisheries, ix., 410 ; uncertainty of 

 results in the whale fishery, ix., 410 ; 

 comparative freedom of this fishery 

 from Government interference, ix., 

 41 1-413 ; injury to the fishery caused 

 by the frequent wars in the latter 

 part of the seventeenth century, ix., 

 413-417 ; formation of a committee 

 of representatives of the fishery, ix., 

 417 ; regulation made by this body 

 with respect to salvage, ix., 418-420 ; 



fishery prohibited in consequence of 

 French war and war of the Spanish 

 succession, ix., 421 ; fitting out by 

 Dutchmen of expeditions from Ham- 

 burg and Bremen, ix., 421 ; removal 

 of the prohibition, ix., 421 ; grant by 

 the States-General to the Greenland 

 Fishery Commissioners of a control 

 over the fishery, ix., 422, 423 ; ex- 

 tension of the fishery to Davis Straits, 

 ix., 423 ; pretensions of Denmark to 

 exclusive fishing rights in the northern 

 seas, ix., 424, 425 ; immunities 

 granted to the Greenland fishery in 

 the matter of furnishing seamen to 

 man the navy and in provision of 

 convoyers, ix., 425 ; in exemption 

 from excise duties, ix., 426 ; advan- 

 tages taken of this to traffic with natives 

 of the countries visited, ix., 426, 427 ; 

 decline of the fishery, ix., 427 ; grant 

 of bounties, ix., 428 ; continued de- 

 pression in the whale fishery owing 

 to war with England, ix., 428, 429 ; 

 owners allowed to sell their ships to 

 foreigners under certain conditions, 

 ix., 429 ; continued grant of bounties, 

 ix., 429 ; general decay of the fishery 

 at the close of the Republic, ix., 430. 

 The Cod Fishery Its unimportance 

 compared with the herring fishery, 

 ix., 430 ; mode of fishing adopted, ix., 

 431 ; vessels employed, ix., 431 ; 

 mode of preparing the fish caught in 

 the Iceland fisher}-, ix., 432 ; protec- 

 tion of fishing vessels by convoys, ix., 

 433 ; contract between owners for 

 mutual insurance against losses by 

 war, ix., 433 ; measures taken for 

 protection of fishing vessels from 

 Dunkirk privateers, ix., 434; esta- 

 blishment of a representative body, 

 ix-j 435 t evidences of a considerable 

 export trade in cured fish, ix., 436 ; 

 difficulties with Denmark respecting 

 the Iceland fishery, ix., 437; fluctua- 

 tions of the trade, ix., 437 ; use of 

 well-boats for preserving fish alive, 

 ix., 438 ; enactment prohibiting ex- 

 port of such boats, ix. , 438 ; decline 

 of the fishery, ix., 439 j grant of 



