64 A. D. 1784. 



The following table for the year 1782 (hows, in what diilrids of the 

 country the chief branches of the linen manufadure are eftablifhed. 



Shires. Yai'ds. Medium price. Value. 



Forfar - 6,742,387 8^. /^ 177, 105 



Renfrew - i, 577.451 2/1 i- 166,637 



Lanerk - - 1,571,798 2/1^ 165,578 



Fife - - 2,360,740 9^ 9°o04 



Perth - - 1,699,682 ii-rV 81,195 



Edinburgh - 180,120 3/ 27,229 



The other (hires in the fouth part of 7 g ^g^^^^ 



Scotland j 



The other Lowland fhires north of 7 . ^^ 



the Forth \ ^^ '^ . '^' 



The Highland (hires including all 7 g ^ 



theiflands j Jo 0/ ,^/ 



Total - 15,348,100 £115^^0 



In fome of the remote (liires, e. g. Catnefs and Sutherland, the whole 

 value of the linen (lamped, would fcarcely fupport the officer employed 

 to (lamp it, if his fubfiftence depended upon it. On the other hand it 

 may be obferved, that a very large quantity of linen is woven from yarn 

 fpun in families, which, not being for fale, is never (lamped. The quant- 

 ity of fuch houfehold linen in the (hires of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Ayr, 

 Bute, Argyle, Stirling, Clackmannan, Bamf, and fome others, is probably 

 not lefs than the half, and the value much more than the half, of the 

 linen (lamped in thofe (hires. 



This year no herrings appeared upon the coall of Sweden, But on 

 the weft coafts of Ireland and Scotland the abundance of thofe heaven- 

 direded vifitors was inconceivably great. On the Irifh coaft the (iflier- 

 men generally loaded their boats with a (ingle haul of a net, and each 

 boat cleared 2i^54 in the three months of the fummer fifhing, though the 

 herrings were fold during the firft month (July) for about 10^. a thou- 

 fand, or from ^d. to dd. for as many as a horfe could carry ; though 

 millions were boiled down for oil, and millions were thrown away. On 

 the coaft of Scotland as many herrings were caught in one inlet of the 

 fea, called Loch Urn in Invernefs-(hire, in feven or eight weeks, as, if 

 they could have been brought to market, would have fold for ^^5 6,000*; 

 after which, the ftock of fait and ca(k being expended, the people, who 



• The computation was made by Mr. Macdonell thofe in the rear drove many millions of the fore- 



of Banifdale, judiciary bailie of that diftrift. Such moft ones, and along with them other filhes larger 



prodigious fholes of herrings are pretty frequent in than themfelves, on fliore. [See yiccoiint of the pre- 



that loch. In the years 1767 or 1768, and in fentjlate ef the HcbriJes by DoSor /Imlerfan, pp. IL, 



1782, the loch was crammed fo full of them, that 160,] 



