190 A. D. 1789, 



ages containing lefs than 450 pounds in an entire undivided mafs : and 

 the importation of tobacco ftalks, tobacco-ftalk flour, and fnufF work, 

 was totally prohibited. Any veflel found hovering, or at anchor, with- 

 in four leagues of the coafl, and having tobacco or fnuff onboard, weigh- 

 ing akogether more than 100 pounds over the allowance of 5 pounds for 

 each man onboard, is liable to feizure and condemnation. American 

 tobacco mufl be imported diredt from the place of its growth, either in 

 Britifh velTels navigated according to law, or in vefTels belonging to the 

 United ftates, whereof the commander and three fourths of the crew are 

 fubjeds of the fl:ates. Tobacco, lawfully imported in Britifli veffels from 

 the United ftates into the Britifli Weft-India iflands, may be imported 

 thence into Great Britain, the names of the veffels and their command- 

 ers, by whom it was carried to the Weft-Indies, being exprefled in the 

 manifeft of the vcfl^el which brings it home. No tobacco or fnuff is al- 

 lowed to be imported into any other ports of Great Britain than Lon- 

 don, Briftol, Liverpool, Lancafter, Covves, Falmouth, Whitehaven, Hull, 

 Port-Glafgow, Greenock, and Leith, on pain of forfeiture of veffel and 

 cargo. But veffels loaded entirely with tobacco may enter the ports of 

 Cowes and Falmouth, and there remain fourteen days waiting for or- 

 ders, without being fubjeft to the regulations of this a6t Damaged to- 

 bacco, which the importer is unwilling to pay the duties upon, or to ex- 

 port, muft be burnt. 



The a6t, which confifts of 173 fections, contains a vaft multiplicity of 

 precautions, penalties, and regulations, to prevent frauds in landing, re- 

 fhipping, and manufaduring, tobacco and fnuff, and alfo to prevent the 

 adulteration of them ; all the minutia: of which muft be known to thofe 

 concerned ; but they would be little interefting to others. The draw- 

 backs of cuftom and excife, allowed upon exportation, are alfo fpecified. 

 [f. 68.] 



There feems to be fufficient proof, that there is a very excellent fifti- 

 ing bank running, apparently, parallel with the weft coaft of Ireland, 

 and thence ftretching northward on the outfide of the Weftern illands 

 by Hirta (erroneoufty called S'. Kilda) and Rona to Shetland, and per- 

 haps to Fceroe and Iceland. About two centuries ago Admiral Sir Wil- 

 liam Monfon caught great quantities of the beft cod and ling upon this 

 bank, which he defcribes in his Naval traBs ; and he obferves, that it 

 had been negleded for above a hundred years *. The fouthern extrem- 

 ity of this bank, lying off the fouth-weft part of Ireland, is regularly re- 

 forted to by fiftiing veffels from Kinfale. But the pofition of the reft of 

 it is not afcertained with fufficient precifion to enable the fifhermen to 

 fteer for it, though feveral veffels in the American trade have ftruck 

 foundings upon it, and Mr. Bachop of Londonderry about the year 



* Is there any other authority than this obfervation of his for its having been known or freqiiented 

 }CO vears before his time ? 



