HERRING FISHERY. 5 



make an article of commerce. 5thly, Of the in- 

 fpe&ors and overfeers of this commerce. 



The veffels employed in this fiihery, are, time 

 out of mind, called Bttfzzfn. The Englifh ufe 

 a kind of veflels, carrying from 60 to 70 tuns. The 

 Dutch veiTels are from 25 to 30 lafts, fome are 

 40, but feldom fo much. Each of thefe have 

 ten, twelve, or fourteen men aboard, who are 

 hired at fo much per week, except the fteerfman, 

 who receives 5 florins, for each laft of herrings. 

 The crew receive, over and above their pay, a pre- 

 fent of herrings proportioned to the take, which 

 prefent is the only wages of the younger part of the 

 crew or apprentices. A Dutch fifhing fmack cofts 

 new, about nine thoufand flonns ; the cofls of 

 fitting for two voyages, are about fix thoufand 

 florins, and for three voyages, about eight thou- 

 fand. Mr. Semeyns computes the expence of 

 fitting out a veffel of 60 lafls (including prime 

 coft) to amount to 7,530 florins, to make 

 three voyages in the courfe of a year. 



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