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harbours ever frozen, or choaked up with 

 fand as the Dutch. 



The Nymph bank, fo abundant in fifh, 

 extending in length from Waterford har- 

 bour to Cape Clear, is not quite twenty 

 leagues from our coaft ; it is more than 

 double that diftance from the coaft of 

 Cornwal in Great Britain : yet how little 

 advantage is taken of this lituation ! 



The confumption of cured fifh in Spain 

 is incredible. That fage Spaniard Uztariz, 

 after mewing the advantages, which the 

 Dutch, French, and Englifh have reaped 

 from their fiftieries, takes no little pains to 

 animate the Spanish nation, fanguinely to 

 purfue the like commerce and policy ; he 

 goes fo far as even to aflert, that the Spa- 

 niards have a right to fiih at Newfound- 

 land. Speaking of the confumption of 

 fim in Spain, this politic Spaniard fays ; 

 ct it ought to be a principal concern of 

 the government) to prevent foreigners from 

 enervating the kingdom fo much as they 

 do, by the importation of fait fifh, and 

 the great confumption it meets with in 



Spain 



