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which amount to 3750 quintals per day, 

 and for one hundred and thirty faft days in 

 a year, 487,500 quintals : which at the 

 rate of five dollars, the current price, a lit- 

 tle more or lefs, when foreigners fell to us, 

 amount to 2,437,^00 dollars And, if we 

 .add the great quantities of cured falmon, 

 herrings,' pilchards, and other fiih. from 

 abroad, which is alfo expended in Spain, 

 one may reafcnably imagine, that the mo- 

 ney they annually drain from us, by this 

 article, is above three millions of dollars : 

 and it is one of the principal caufes of our 

 unhappy fituation." 



The fleets of our enemies are almoft 

 annihilated in this war. We are mafters of 

 the Northern feas, aud the Dutch dare not 

 put out their bufles as ufual, which may 

 in great meafure account for the plenty of 

 Jierrings laft year on our coaft ; for it is 

 well known, that the Dutch ufed to meet 

 the great columns of herrings more to the 

 Northward, than any other nation ; and by 

 their nets, and calling out the offals of the 

 fifh, to the Weftward fide of the column, 



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